Sleep Story 228 – Marie Antoinette by Hilaire Belloc
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Marie Antoinette, Chapter 1 the Diplomatic Revolution
Europe alone of all human groups is capable of transforming herself ceaselessly, and not by the copying of foreign models. The force that makes us diversified and full of life shines out in peaks of action. That power which has forbidden us to perish uses servants often impersonal or obscure. It is most likely to be discovered at work in the permanent traditions of the populace. Marie Antoinette was dedicated to it as a pledge, a bond, and at last a victim. She showed every episode of her drama. Her marriage, her aminence, her sufferings, and her death were each directly the consequence of that compact. Its conclusion coincided with her birth.
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