# Marie Antoinette

Author: Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69542

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Marie+Antoinette+Belloc&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

EUROPE, which carries the fate of the whole world, lives by a life which is in contrast to that of every other region, because that life, though intense, is inexhaustible. There is present, therefore, in her united history a dual function of maintenance and of change such as can be discovered neither in any one of her component parts nor in civilisations exterior to her own. Europe alone of all human groups is capable of transforming herself ceaselessly, not by the copying of foreign models, but in some creative way from within. She alone has the gift of moderating all this violent energy, of preserving her ancient life, and by an instinct whose action is now abrupt, now imperceptibly slo...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/marie-antoinette-69542/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/marie-antoinette-69542/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/marie-antoinette-69542/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/marie-antoinette-69542/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/marie-antoinette-69542/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/marie-antoinette-69542/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/marie-antoinette-69542/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/marie-antoinette-69542/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/marie-antoinette-69542/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/marie-antoinette-69542/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/marie-antoinette-69542/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/marie-antoinette-69542/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/marie-antoinette-69542/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/marie-antoinette-69542/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/marie-antoinette-69542/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/marie-antoinette-69542/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/marie-antoinette-69542/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/marie-antoinette-69542/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/marie-antoinette-69542/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/marie-antoinette-69542/chapters/4/index.md)