"The great ladies of the Restoration evolved a romantic heroine out of the “Orphan of the Temple,” but when they discovered that in spite of her natural dignity she lacked grace of manner, they made few excuses for a Princess who at the most crucial time of life, when other children of her rank were receiving careful instruction to fit them for the duties awaiting them, was left to the anguish and terror of complete solitude."
--Mary Frances Sandars, Louis XVIII, 1910
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