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There is a way of considering Marie-Antoinette which seems to me the true way, and I would fain define it, because it is in this direction, as I believe, the definitive judgement of history will go. Some persons may, from a lofty feeling of compassion, fall in love with the ideal interest attaching to her, endeavour to defend her at all points, make themselves her advocates, her knights towards and against all comers and resent the mere idea of stains and foibles that others think they have discovered in her life. The rule of such defenders is to be respected when it is sincere: and we can well understand it in those who worship the traditions of the old royalty.
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