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]
I would rather expose myself to danger, if any has to be incurred, and remove it from the person of the King and my children.
–Marie Antoinette, to Madame de Tourzel, October 5th 1789; the queen told Madame de Tourzel that she had refused to sleep the King’s rooms and that her children should be brought to the King (rather than herself) in case of any noise or tumult from the crowd surrounding the palace.
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