The Project Gutenberg eBook, Maria Antoinette, by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

Title: Maria Antoinette

Makers of History

Author: John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

Release Date: January 6, 2010 [eBook #30875]

Language: English

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Makers of History

Maria Antoinette

BY

JOHN S. C. ABBOTT

WITH ENGRAVINGS

NEW YORK AND LONDON

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS

1901

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand
eight hundred and forty-nine, by

Harper & Brothers.

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District
of New York.

CHARLES MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND.

View of Paris.

PREFACE.

In this history of Maria Antoinette it has been my endeavor to give a faithful narrative of facts, and, so far as possible, to exhibit the soul of history. A more mournful tragedy earth has seldom witnessed. And yet the lesson is full of instruction to all future ages. Intelligence and moral worth combined can be the only basis of national prosperity or domestic happiness. But the simple story itself carries with it its own moral, and the reflections of the writer would encumber rather than enforce its teachings.

CONTENTS.

ENGRAVINGS.