Reading this description of Marie Antoinette's wedding day at Versailles may sound all too similar. I bet there will be a similar scene this Friday, except hopefully no rain!
"At this moment all Paris is at Versailles. The people have been coming on foot since daybreak. The citizens have been arriving, some on hired horses, some in cabs, some in carriages from livery stables. The park is thronged by an immense crowd. Alas! The sad omens are about to be renewed. At three in the afternoon the sky is overcast by clouds Rain pours down in torrents. The thunder rumbles. Every one seeks shelter.
But if the approaches to the chateau are dismal in the evening, it is dazzling within. All the splendors of aristocracy riches luxury and the fine arts are accumulated there."
Description of the day of the Royal Wedding at Versailles, for Marie Antoinette and Louis. From Imbert de Saint-Amand, and Elizabeth Gilbert Martin. 1893. Last years of Louis XV. New York: C. Scribner's sons.
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