I am in the middle of reading Lady Fraser's Marie Antoinette -The Journey published in 2001 ISBN 0-385-48948-X. Among other things she shoots out of the water that whole things about Louis having that surgery he supposedley had. It was propganda that had been circulated to suggest he wasn't much of a man. Marie's brother Joseph simply came along and gave him a man to man talk on the birds and the bees and the neccesity of a royal line. Louis was disinclined to sex odd for the grandson of the other Louis who was such a naughty boy. Bice
On 8/19/05, Carol Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And she wasn't producing male heirs one after the other. Not her > fault, but the French just couldn't understand a King that was faithful > to his wife as Louis XVI. And a king that wasn't that interested in sex > was something nearly impossible at the time, especially to the French, > who were very used to Kings bedhopping--it was almost expected. > > Her husband wasn't disintered in sex-he was incapable of it. And once his > problem had been fixed their first born apparently suffered from progeria, so > maybe he shouldn't have had kids > > Carol _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
