Saturday, March 7, 2009

Reading for Monday: Yearsley, "Elegy on Marie Antoinette"

Here is the poem that Ryan will be teaching the class on Monday.

2 comments:

Liz Svoboda said...

So I looked up the French monarchy lineage; it's from Wikipedia but also scotlandroyalty.org. The last few line of French kings were from the House of Bourbon and the Capetian Dynasty.

Louis XIV is the Sun King

Louis XV is the great-grandson of Louis XIV.

Louis XV is Marie-Antoinette's husband and Louis XV's grandson.

I don't know if this adds anything to the Monday's discussion, but I just wanted to clear the matter up.

KW said...

Thanks, Liz! Should that last Louis be Louis XVI?