Something else that crosses my mind! is the fact that the subsitutionist have try to focus on the fact that the Duchess was a very cold woman, that she went so far as to say "that woman is the responsible one" referring to her mother the queen.
I have trouble to believe in that, however if you read marie Antoinette`s biography you can feel at least the authors make you feel that there was a preference toward Louis Charles.
That somehow MA did not really understood her daughter`s attitude so well.
I think it is really hard to really know Marie Therese, she is always referred to as part of an other context, she is always the daughter, sister, niece of someone, but I would like to know what she might have felt!!!
She was a proud person, as a child she was self conscious of her rank. She was a daughter of France and took a lot of pride in that. Her mother tried to restrained that feeling of grandeur, because she thought it would do her more harm than anything else.
She invited children fron non noble backgrounds and told her daughter that she had to be a good hostess no matter the origine of the guests. Mousseline is said to have not been happy with the task!
I suppose she resented her mother`s "lesson"?
