Marie Antoinette's Confidante Quotes

“Chapelle Royale de Dreux.”
― Geri Walton, Marie Antoinette's Confidante: The Rise and Fall of the Princesse de Lamballe

“Le Petit Force”
― Geri Walton, Marie Antoinette's Confidante: The Rise and Fall of the Princesse de Lamballe

“supportiveminded”
― Geri Walton, Marie Antoinette's Confidante: The Rise and Fall of the Princesse de Lamballe

“bossom.”
― Geri Walton, Marie Antoinette's Confidante: The Rise and Fall of the Princesse de Lamballe

“Braysur”
― Geri Walton, Marie Antoinette's Confidante: The Rise and Fall of the Princesse de Lamballe

“sotalented”
― Geri Walton, Marie Antoinette's Confidante: The Rise and Fall of the Princesse de Lamballe

“manof-war.”
― Geri Walton, Marie Antoinette's Confidante: The Rise and Fall of the Princesse de Lamballe

“would not convene until almost two years later in May 1879.”
― Geri Walton, Marie Antoinette's Confidante: The Rise and Fall of the Princesse de Lamballe

“Motesquieu,”
― Geri Walton, Marie Antoinette's Confidante: The Rise and Fall of the Princesse de Lamballe

“d’Oliva was disguised in a loose, flowing celestial white robe en gaulle. Apparently, the countess pilfered this idea from a portrait titled La Reine en gaulle (The Queen in a Muslin Dress) painted by Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun in which the”
― Geri Walton, Marie Antoinette's Confidante: The Rise and Fall of the Princesse de Lamballe

“Palais-Royal was originally built to house France’s cardinal in the 1600s. When he died, King Louis XIII took control until eventually it became home to the duc d’Orléans and his son, the duc de Chartres.”
― Geri Walton, Marie Antoinette's Confidante: The Rise and Fall of the Princesse de Lamballe

“scar or pimple), l’ejouée (in the skin’s folds), and l’impudent or l’éfrontée (on the nose).”
― Geri Walton, Marie Antoinette's Confidante: The Rise and Fall of the Princesse de Lamballe

“they had special names based on their placement: la majestueuse (forehead), la coquette (lips), l’assassin (temple), la passionnée (corner of eyes), la discrète (under the lower lip), la receleuse (over”
― Geri Walton, Marie Antoinette's Confidante: The Rise and Fall of the Princesse de Lamballe

“mouches in French, referred to facial patches, which were considered the finishing touch to a woman’s toilette.”
― Geri Walton, Marie Antoinette's Confidante: The Rise and Fall of the Princesse de Lamballe

“pouf à la Belle Poule. The Queen modeled it on the real life Belle Poule, a French frigate that went against the British in June 1778.”
― Geri Walton, Marie Antoinette's Confidante: The Rise and Fall of the Princesse de Lamballe

“Marie Antoinette would later say of the cheerful and lively princess; ‘She is the only woman I know … who never bears a grudge; neither hatred nor jealousy is to be found in her.”
― Geri Walton, Marie Antoinette's Confidante: The Rise and Fall of the Princesse de Lamballe

“The princesse de Lamballe was also introduced and despite being six years older than Marie Antoinette, the princesse de Lamballe was ‘ideally fitted by training, experience and character to be the guide, philosopher and friend [to the dauphine].”
― Geri Walton, Marie Antoinette's Confidante: The Rise and Fall of the Princesse de Lamballe

“Bridge of Beauvoisin, a bridge named by an early Savoyard count to compliment the King of France.37 The bridge served as a passage between the House of Savoy and France, and, at that point, it was also a passage between the new princesse de Lamballe and the old Marie Thérèse. Her childhood of Savoyard royalty lay behind her. Her future as a French princess beckoned her forward. She was presented with new ladies-in-waiting, and it must have been a tearful parting from those that she had known since childhood. After her goodbyes and before climbing into the gilded French carriage sent especially for her, she paused, surveyed her future, and felt a sudden presentiment of misfortune. Her presentiment came true, although she was not the recipient of”
― Geri Walton, Marie Antoinette's Confidante: The Rise and Fall of the Princesse de Lamballe

“Madame Le Brun, who once painted a portrait of her, claimed Marie Thérèse had ‘the most beautiful blonde hair imaginable’,13 and another person commented that her hair could easily be ‘likened to the tresses which crown, nimbus-like, the heads of Raphael’s Madonnas.’14”
― Geri Walton, Marie Antoinette's Confidante: The Rise and Fall of the Princesse de Lamballe

“In 1720, the House of Savoy acquired Sardinia and came to rule almost all of the Italian Peninsula.”
― Geri Walton, Marie Antoinette's Confidante: The Rise and Fall of the Princesse de Lamballe