Notorious Royal Marriages
I've been re-reading so many of my Marie-Antoinette related books lately, I thought I'd start posting an interesting bit or quote from them every so often. I'll try for every day, but no guarantees.
This one comes from "Notorious Royal Marriages" by Leslie Carroll.
"Yet there were occasions when the King showed himself to be a true romantic -- even in public. One day when he was riding through the Bois de Boulogne he saw the queen sitting on the grass with his aunts, enjoying a repast of strawberries and cream, an image straight out of the pastoral canvases of Fragonard. He alit from the saddle, clasped his wife by her waist, and kissed her. All who witnessed this charming display of domestic bliss and marital harmony applauded"
This one comes from "Notorious Royal Marriages" by Leslie Carroll.
"Yet there were occasions when the King showed himself to be a true romantic -- even in public. One day when he was riding through the Bois de Boulogne he saw the queen sitting on the grass with his aunts, enjoying a repast of strawberries and cream, an image straight out of the pastoral canvases of Fragonard. He alit from the saddle, clasped his wife by her waist, and kissed her. All who witnessed this charming display of domestic bliss and marital harmony applauded"