vivelareine: The King … did not want to leave the chateau even to take a walk, in the first w
The King … did not want to leave the chateau even to take a walk, in the first week after the delivery. When the Queen awoke he was first at her bedside, spent part of the morning with her and came back on different occasions in the afternoon, stayed there all evening and spent his time between the Queen and his august child, to whom he shows the most touching love.
–Ambassador Mercy to Maria Theresa, 25 January 1779 [translation: Margaret MacLeod, There Were Three of Us in the Relationship]
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