Portrait of the Dauphin by Alexander Kucharsky
The rioting mob forced the French royal family to leave Versailles and settle in the Tuilleries but that Parisian palace caused a doleful impression in everyone as it had been unoccupied for some years. The six-year old Dauphin exclaimed:
—“But everything is so ugly here, Mamma!”
Filled with sadness, the Queen tried to comfort him, saying:
—“Louis XV was very fond of this palace. We should not show ourselves more demanding than him.”
Henri Robert, Os grandes processos da História (Porto Alegre: Globo, 1939), Vol. 3, p. 95. (Nobility.org translation.)
Short Stories on Honor, Chivalry, and the World of Nobility—no. 275
