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THE WOMAN IN THE IRON MASK |
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Madame de Pomp / Athos Marie Antoinette Madame de Spicable Cardinal Mazarin Princess Henriette Cyrano de Bergerac Anna de Breuil Dr Guillotin Madame Tussaud Amorous de Spicable "La Voisin" Quasimodo Louis XV Mistresses and Musketeers Investigation Panel |
Marie Antoinette has been married
to
Louis XV for almost two years. Of Austrian descent, she is a pretty
young woman of 23. No intellectual heavyweight, the queen enjoys
extravagant balls, masquerades, clothes and dancing. The cost of these
is substantial and there has been rumblings of discontent from the common
people whose taxes pay for these excesses. The French also have no
love for their natural enemies, the Austrians. Several public verbal
assaults had left Marie Antoinette scared of being in Paris, and it was she
who accepted
Cyrano de Bergerac's invitation to stay
at Château Meutre. |
©2009 - Tim Morrell |
