Author: SMYTHE,L.C.
Title: The Guardian of Marie Antoinette: Letters from The Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, Austrian Ambassador to the Court of Versailles, to Marie Thérèse, Empress of Austria 1770-1780: Volume I & Volume II
Description: London 1902, 699 pp., two portraits / tables(1 fold.), library-stamps on title-pages, rebacked in two nice bindings, The Austrian Empress Maria Theresia, as a caring mother, could not send her 14-year old daughter Marie Antoinette to the notoriously dissolute French court without precaution and protection. A busy correspondence ensued, informing her then and us now how the little Marie Antoinette fared. (code B-312)

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