St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1865-11-16

way. 81 shall never see Vienna apain. ,;
said Maria Antoinette, calmly Then she
cried aloud, "Maria Theresa Maria Their
esa!" and sank exhausted among the cush-
ions of the carriage -. /: II. .,->>-. .s>
The new career Of the dauphiness began
brilliantly. Her reception from the bor-
ders Of France on to the capital was one
series OF homages and triunphs. ..Our
dauphinese," ''the angel" 1.-The beautiful
Maria. was heard everywhere.
But in the midst of the joy, from out the
rosy mist which suffused all senses. loomed
up the forms that were one day to destroy
the earthly welfare of Maria Antoinette.
Close beside her husband the old king
Louis XIV. received her. Tie pure, deli
cate dauphincss lay in the arms Of the
man whose vices occasioned the ruin of his
| house. This man was shamed BY the irno-
cent youth Of Maria Antoiuette. So he
allowed his Mistress, Countess Dubarrv. to
eat at tho same table with the daughter Of
Maria Theresa! The pavilion in which the
bridal pair first alighted, was hung with
| tapestry. A chill ran over the neck of the
dauphiness as she noticed the design, ia
son. kreusa aud Medea, the prototype of
an unhappy marriage the representation
of child-murder, and above these images of
horror, Furies were pictured drawn in a
chariot by dragons. Such ornaments were
! on the walls Of the room in which Maria
Antoinette was to rest after her long jour-
ney with its exciting scenes.
St:assburg! Cathedral Service! before
the doors Of the mighty temple. the clergy,
in pontifical robes, received their new. fu-
ture mistress. AS she stepped from the
carriage, tall handsome man eld out his
hand, covered with costly rings, to assist
the dauphiness. This man in rich and
splendid priestly garb. in whose hand Ma
ria Antoinette laid her own, was Louis de
Rohan, Coadjutor, afterwards Cardinal, the
unhappy or thoughtless instigator of the
unhappy affair, known IN the annals of the
time as the diamond necklace.
No cloud dims the clear heaven of their
young welded life. The timidity and re-
serve of the young husband soon yield to
the tenderest love. Innocent social amuse-
ments-then the entrance into Paris. Nu-
meroes celebrations. Then the cloud
arose. There were fireworks in honor of
the young pair. Through bad manage
ment there was a great tumalt, the crowd
Of spectators press upon and crush each
other, they are trodden down BY the fright
ened horses Hundreds of corpses are
draw from the crowd. Malignity made
use of this event. Comic derisive songs
were heard every where. The enemies Of
the dauPhiness stirred themselves. for
youth, innocence and beauty have always
their enemies. The most malignant of
these were to be found in the bosom of her
y nj Eol
ness Every step of the dauphiness is
miscons,rued her hearty Laughter is friv-
olity, her active benifcenco ostentation.
her gay raillery immodesty. If she speaks
kindly to nsbleman. criminal intercourse
is suspected; it she is reserved she is called
proud. She is no longer 1.-THE beautiful
dauphiness." She is called s'The Red
one.' Madame Dubarry has so christened
her. The old king dies. The young ruler
ascends the throne. Enemies become con-
stantly more numerous. The crown, which
the king placed upon his own head at
Rheims, cut streak of blood in his fore
head. lit oppresses me- cried the king
in his pain. The queen Maria Antoinette
turned pale. I'VE arc too young to reign.
Tray for your unhappy children" she
wrote to Maria Theresa.
Trnly this crown was oppressive. With
its weight the misfortunes Of life burst like
raging waves over the royal family. The
deficit in the treasury, famine, frustrated
plans, frivolity in high places, the mar
riage of Figaro, the affair of the diamond
necklace, the convention of the notables.
Mirabeau, the stormiDg Of the Bastile -
Darker and darker grew the sky. Personal
attacks upon the queen became frequent.
Where now is the appellatiou, .'heavenly
dauphiness," the .'angel!'' She is now
called Madame Veto, or the heiress. or ths
austrian! She stands alone in strange
land. Her beloved mother, her noble
brother Joseph have gone over into the
land of peace. Her few faithful devoted
friends become fewer every day. Revolu-
ton is constantly impending. Flight from
this lawless Paris! 1t is frustrated
Hencetorth every restraint is broken. The
royal abode is storme,. the unhappy VIC
tim is dragged before the trihsnal If the
people--imprisonment--the dungeon-at
length death!
Maria Antoinette endured all the sor
rows, the greatest which man can bear
che drank the cup of wormwood even to
the dregs. Well might her sad look turn
often to the halls Of tho imperial palace.
''What good fortune! What distinction
What future! !" had been the joyful ex-
clamations when the portrait of the 6au-
phiu shone upon the breast of Maria An
toinette. And now it had come-thc fear
full presence. Did she think of Vienna.
the most unfortunate of queens, whea, on
the morning; Of the sixteenth Of October,
1898. she ascended the fearful wagon? back
on the pathetic parting with her great,
imperial mother On those words Which
she uttered with prophetic meaniDg! :.
+ Maria .Antoinelts had learnad to cav.
farewell-farewell, to her mother, to ;oy.
to grandeur, to her husband, to her chill
dren, to life" Of all the separations The
last was the easiest. .c:.. 80: .ss75 - -.
Farewell, my children, Il 20 to your IA
ther!" we're the last words of ,he sufferer.
who amid the splendor Of tho Imperial cas-
tie, in her brilliant entrance into Paris.
even upon the throne of France was not
greater than at the moment when she as
eended the scaffold, when the falling iron
cut through and severed her life. She was
great in her misery, heroic, grand; for the
daughter of German emperors remained
true to her threatened, death devoted hus,
band. .....''
On Tie seventeenth OI Aprlt, 1ISO, sC SIX
O'Clock in thu evening, in the greet hall Of
the castle st Vienna, the envoy, Marquis
Of Dufort, gave . letter t.. the archduchess,
Maria Antoinette. 1t was q love-lctter from
the dauphin sent to express his rapture.
On the sixteenth Of October, 1928. three
snd-twepty years later, at six o'clock in
the evening, in Che treasury building of the
| velfare-cemmittee in Paris, a man with a
red Jacobine cap upon his rough hair hand
ed letter to the cashier. 1t was bill,
and read thus: azrsst4 nj ~ a5esz.,s