Madame Royale, Daughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Her Youth and Marriage (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Madame Royale, Daughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Her Youth and Marriage<br><br>In my Histoire de l'Emigration I have given a very detailed account of the varied experiences of Madame Royale, daughter of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, and afterwards Duchesse d'Angouleme, from the day that she was condemned to share her parents' lot and to be imprisoned with them in the Temple Tower, until her marriage with her cousin, the son of the Comte d'Artois. But, owing to the force of circumstances and to the necessity of preserving the correct chronological order, I was obliged to scatter these alternately pleasing and heartrending details through the long epic of the Emigration. It seemed to me that they deserved to be offered to the public in a more coherent form.<br><br>With that object I have detached them from the general history in which they appeared rather lost, and have gathered them together in a single picture, which will give the reader a better view of my heroine, and enable me to show her in a more brilliant light, in her struggle with the misfortunes that clouded her whole life. The story that will be read in these pages, therefore, is really one that has already been told.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.