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The Court of Christina of Sweden, and the Later Adventures of the Queen in Exile (Classic Reprint)
Francis Gribble
Paperback. Forgotten Books 2015-09-27.
ISBN 9781331399896
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Excerpt from The Court of Christina of Sweden, and the Later Adventures of the Queen in Exile The personality and proceedings of Queen Christina of Sweden were the subject of passionate controversy during her life; and the echoes of the disputation have never quite died away. She has been praised as one who - her heart being touched by the divine grace - made a great sacrifice for conscience' sake. She has also been denounced as a monster of licence and cruelty: a woman, who, if she did not make a practice of murdering her lovers, at least caused one of them to be done to death in extraordinarily barbarous circumstances. As a matter of fact, while, like other people, she deserves both praise and blame, she merits neither that particular blame nor that particular praise. On the one hand, she wore the cloak of religion, almost to the last, with far too jaunty an air to be mistaken for a saint. On the other hand, the doing to death of a member of her suite in the Fontainebleau Palace - whether one styles it murder or execution - was, at any rate, no crime passionel. Monaldeschi may or may not have been a traitor - may or may not have been a liar and a slanderer; but it is as certain as anything can be that he was not, and never had been, a lover. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works
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