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The Queen’s sunrise:

… they all went up to the heights of Marly, and that to avoid any scandal attaching to this nocturnal expedition, the Queen ordered her women to accompany her. In the midst of this brilliant assembly, Marie Antoinette, standing between the Princesse de Lamballe and the Comtesse de Noailles, cried out: “How lovely! Oh, how lovely!”

A few days later an abominable poem entitled “The Rising of Aurora” was circulated throughout Paris, presenting this innocent expedition in the most compromising light, saying that Marie Antoinette could not conceal her joy at Louis XVI’s refusal to take part in it, and that “on a futile pretext she had disappeared into the thickets of the park where for a long while she remained lost to sight.”

-Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette Before the Revolution, Nesta Webster

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