Marie Antoinette and Louis the Second

Marie antoinette would not stop her weeping. She and her husband had been married for 23 years. Louis the sixteenth had never taken a mistress. Perhaps if he had, some one else to deflect the gossip and attention. But it was far too late to try to imagine how things might have been different. To stop his wife and his sister and his children from crying, louis promised that he would see them to morrow morning,. He lied.