Marie Antionette published June 3,1934 in the American Weekly magazine painted by Edmund Dulac. Of Marie Antonette it has been written that more than anything else her extravagances and insatiable thirst for amusements, during her early years as Queen, brought about the French Revolution. Money was something to be spent, and it was not for her to care from whence it came. Her marriage was loveless and uncongenial. Louis XVI preferred tinkering with clocks to tete-a-tetes with her. She sought consolation in an intimacy-afterwards cruelly misrepresented-with a gay but greedy set who used
In 1923, “Edmund Dulac, the Distinguished English Artist,” as he was billed on the covers, was contracted by the Hearst organization to paint watercolors for The American Weekly Sunday magazine. The contract lasted 30 years and Dulac painted 107 watercolors for thirteen different series until his last Arabian Nights in 1951.
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