The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1867-11-22
Marie AntiOnette.

Marie Antl0nctte.
The following extract from the his
torical Romance by Miss Muhlbach,
published by d. Appleton q Co., will
be read with interest
HAPPY QUEEN.
1t was the 18th of August, 1885
The Queen, Marie Antoinette, had at
last yielded to the requests and protes-
tations of her dear subjects. She had
left her fair Versailles and loved Tria-
non for one day, and had gone to Par
is. in order to exhibit herself and the
young prince whom she had borne to
the king and the country on the 25th
of March, and TO receive III the cathe-
dral of Notre Dame, the blessing of
the clergy aud the good wishes of the
Parislans.
She had an enthusiastic reception,
this beautiful and much loved Queen,
Marie AntoiDette. She had driven in
t. Paris in an open carriage, IN com
pauv with her three children, and
every one who recognized her had
greeted her with a cheerful huzza, and
followed her on the long road to Notre
Dame, at whose door the prominent
clergy awaited her, the cardinal, Prince
Louis de Rolian, at their head, to in
troduce her to the house of the King
of all kings
Marie Antoinette was alone; only
the governess of the children, the
Duchess de Polignac, sat opposite her,
upon the back seat of the carriage, and,
by her side, the Norman nurse, in her
charming yariegated district costume,
grading in her arms Louis Charles,
the younger Duke of Normandy. By
her side, in the front part of the car
rage, sat her other two children
Therese, the princess royal, the first
born daughter, and the dauphin Louis,
the presumptiye heir of the much loved
King Louis the Sixteenth.
The good king had not accompanied
his spouse on this journey to Paris,
which she undertook in order to show
/ to her dear, yet curious Parisians that
she was completely recovered, and that
her children, the children of France,
were blossoming for the future, like
fair buds of hope and peace.
go, my dear Antoinette, the king
had said to his queen, in his pleasant
way, and with his good natured smile
Ego to Paris, in order to prepare a
pleasure for my good people. Show
them our children, and receive nom
them their thanks for the happiness
which you have given to me and to
them. / will not go with you, for
wish that you should be the sole re-
cipient of the enthusiasm of the people
and their joyful acclamations. l wall
not share your triumph, but l shall
experience it in double measure if you
enjoy it alone. Go, therefore, my be
loved Antoinette, and rejoice i'll this
happy hour"
Marie Antoinette did go, and she
did rejoice in the happiness of the
hour. While riding through Paris
hundreds recognized her, hundreds
hailed her with loud acclamations. Al
she left the cathedral of Notre Dame
in order to ascend into the carriage
again with her children and their gov
erness, one would be tempted to thinl
: that the whole square in front OF thu
church had been changed into dark
tumultuous sea, which dashed its rag
ing black waves into all the streets de
bouching on the square, and was NIL
ing all Paris with its roar, Its swell, III
> thunder roll Yes, all Paris was there
in order to look upon Marie Antolnet
tie. who, at this hour, was not tn
: Queen, but the fair woman; the happ.
mother who, with the pride of tn
mother of the Graechi, desired N
, other protection and no other comran
q ionship than that of her two sons; who
: her hand resting upon the shoulder o
her daughter, needed no other mal'
of honor to appear before the peopl
in all the splendor and all the dignit
of the Queen of France and the tru
mother.
Eyes. all Paris was there IN orde