Tea at Trianon: Prostitots

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Prostitots

I've rarely seen anything so depraved. Parisienne Farmgirl gives a scathing social commentary. Share

5 comments:

anothertwocents said...: This would never happen in a Muslim country!; April 3, 2011 at 8:09:00 AM EDT
elena maria vidal said...: No, because they marry them when they're ten years old which is not a good idea either......; April 3, 2011 at 8:54:00 AM EDT
Julygirl said...: It would not happen here either if we had police driving around in open trucks and jumping out to 'billy club' a female whom they deem to be dressed in an immodest way.

In a Democracy we have to take the good side and the down side of freedom.; April 4, 2011 at 9:35:00 AM EDT
lara77 said...: Why the rush to destroy the innocence of childhood? I am repulsed by this overt sexuality themed clothing for children; it is disgusting. We have enough perverts walking the streets without tantalizing them further!!; April 4, 2011 at 9:50:00 AM EDT
elena maria vidal said...: So true, Lara.....; April 4, 2011 at 9:57:00 AM EDT