Madame Royale, Daughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette; Her Youth and Marriage (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...you are." 1 1 Archives of Vienna: published by the Marquis de Pimodan. A little later the prince wrote again: "My very dear cousin, if I had any influence over the management of the posts the one from Vienna would not take so long to bring your letters to this place. I have only just received your letter of the 26th December. It would be no easy matter to depict to you all the happiness your goodness and kindness give me. But it is only, my very dear cousin, when my lips are pressed upon the line traced by your hand that this fleeting sense of happiness can reach me. How can I hope for a more solid kind of happiness as long as this cruel inaction lasts, and as long as I am separated from the person who occupies all my thoughts? "M. de Riviere, when he talked to you about me, was very far from giving a faithful account of me if he did not tell you how unbearable I find this useless life. Glory and my dear cousin are the only influences capable of enlivening my existence: everything apart from these is dead to me. I am beginning to hope, however, that fate is growing tired of putting obstacles in the way of all my wishes, and will soon break a portion of my chains. My father and the King, who is also ready to be the best of fathers to me, are holding out hopes that I may soon return to Condi's army. Then I shall be in the continent where my cousin lives, and I shall fight for her; and if I should be fortunate enough to win a little glory, how happy I shall be to go and lay it at her feet I Do me the kindness, my very dear cousin, to accept the homage of all the ardent and tender feelings that fill the heart of your most affectionate cousin." Of the princess's answers we have none but this: "You are very good, my very dear cousin, to t...