"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?
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.
Mourning the Queen but macking on Madame du Barry.
A widely spaced family.
Very!
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?
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.