Marie Antoinette Quotes
In a month's time, I shall be able to give your Majesty news of the Comtesse de Provence, for the marriage is fixed for May 14th; they had prepared many fetes for this marriage, but now they are economising in them for want of money.
Antoinette, Marie. The Letters of Marie Antoinette. Edited by Charles Duke Yonge, Hurst and Blackett, 1876, p. 28.
He had helped with the Truman Campaign of 1948. Truman had no rich supporters and the radio networks, like most businesses, supported his Republican opponent, Thomas E. Dewey. They charged high rates for a campaign speech.
Marie Antoinette was the last queen of France before the French Revolution. She was born an archduchess of Austria and was the penultimate child and youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Francis I. She became dauphine of France in May 1770 at age 14 upon her marriage to Louis-Auguste, heir apparent to the French throne. On 10 May 1774, her husband ascended the throne as Louis XVI and she became queen.