Edmund Burke, the Anglo-Irish politician and a staunch critic of the French Revolution, laments the execution of Marie Antoinette, in a speech given in late 1793: “It is now 16 or 17 years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles. And surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly … Continue reading Edmund Burke laments the execution of Marie-Antoinette (1793)