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Lisa Maguire's avatar

Mourning the Queen but macking on Madame du Barry.

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Jane Baker's avatar

A widely spaced family.

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David Gemeinhardt's avatar

Very!

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Jeffrey Streeter's avatar

I like this portrait of Marie.

"Your hopes are surely realized for the Eternity in which she is surely well placed, or at least in a good position to get there." All I know about this kind of thing is from Dante or the odd aside in English literature. But this feels grudging. Marie was surely a saint compared to Louis. Was he somehow begrudging her an automatic seat in paradise, as was then believed in?

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David Gemeinhardt's avatar

I don’t think he’s begrudging her a seat in paradise. I think the truly devout would say that one’s salvation is never assured and always dependent on God’s grace.

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