Marie Antoinette's

Her description reminds me a little bit of Harriet Smith, from Emma and also of one of my friends.

@Miss Honnete funny you say so! The description is also very similar to that of Miss Blanche Ingram from Jane Eyre!

@Miss Honnete LOL @ second part of your comment

Lamballe seems to be described as being much more innocent and good natured than Blance Ingram though. I felt like Blance was a haughty and extremely fake character.

**make that Blanche not Blance haha

I must admit I cannot like women who echo the opinion of others. As for her large hands, Vivien Leigh was known to have large hands for her delicate beauty. Instead of hiding them, she learned to use them theatrically.

Princesse de Lamballe: she actually was an extremely brave, loyal, and kind-hearted lady. She returned to Paris to be with Marie Antoinette during the revolution (knowing full well that death was a definite possibility, she wrote her will shortly beforehand) and died for her loyalty (ostensibly in the most brutal, horrific way). Prior to her death, she was very active in charity. In fact, Marie Antoinette's husband encouraged his wife to spend more time with Polignac, because to him, Lamballe seemed too socially liberal.

To me this description seems wrong,envious and poisonous.

Yes, Louise was beautiful. And she was also one of the most painted and drawn people at the time. On none of the pictures does her hands seem anything but delicate and in proportion. And if she was not elsgant and graceful, why so many paintings of her?

As for her intelligence, she was one of the very champions of philosophical and enlightenment ideas at the time, up to such an extent that she was initiated into irregular Freemasonry, and held the title of Grand Mistress (equivalent to Grand Master).

The last picture of her drawn only hours before she was tortured and killed, shows that she was still very beautiful.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Marie-th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se_Louise_de_Savoie-Carignan_princesse_de_Lamballe--Joseph-Siffred_Duplessis_mg_9507.jpg


http://books.google.com/books?id=D-cCeOEXGyoC&pg=PA49&lpg=PA49&dq=de+lamballe+freemason&source=bl&ots=thyiW6LJiW&sig=XjWeHrdx8szfFdqLjx4YhZ_ZQEU&hl=no&ei=NVsnTfX2LILHswaQwtypAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://18thcenturyhistory.com/post/285323184/nocake-the-last-image-sketched-of-the-princess

Unlike Mme.Polignac, Mme de Lamballe did not hesitate to leave the safety of England to be with her friend, the Queen during the early and chaotic days of the Revolution, and paid for her fidelity with her life. Marie Antoinette herself reflected on the difference between her two friend. "La bonne Lamballe, qui n'attendait que le danger pour montrer ce qu'elle vaut"

I've read the personal diary of Princess Lamballe. She had plenty of opinions, but wasn't one to share everything she thought with everyone she met, which is why she was so trusted by the royal family. She knew how to keep a secret. She had emotional depth and higher than average intelligence, but led with her heart, which was and is, a smart and courageous thing to do, although seldom appreciated as fully as it ought to be.