tiny-librarian:Leaving Strasbourg she crossed her father’s lost Duchy of Lorraine, seeing his

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Leaving Strasbourg she crossed her father’s lost Duchy of Lorraine, seeing his old capital at Nancy, and then went by way of Rheims - crowning place of the Kings of France - through the woods to Compiegne, where she arrived on 14 May. Here she was met by Louis XV and his grandson, her betrothed, who were waiting for her under the trees at a crossroad as though on some hunting party.

Marie Antoinette - Desmond Seward