History, personal circumstances and destiny come together and weave the story of Princess Bathilde d'Orléans. “Remember, we were not brought into this world to be happy!” she said to a friend who was going through difficult times. When she expressed those fateful words, Princess Bathilde was still very young, not suspecting what life had in store for her.



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Sources/ Further Reading:

La Mère du Duc d’Enghien by Comte Paul Émile Théodore Ducos, Paris, E. Plon, Nourrit et Cie, 1900

The Letters of Mozart and His Family, Translated and Edited by Emily Anderson, London, Macmillan & Co., Ltd, 1938 – Vol. I and Vol. II

Memoirs of the Baroness d’Oberkirch, Countess de Montbrison, Written by Herself, Ed. by Her Grandson, the Count de Montbrison, London, Colburn & Co., Publishers, 1852 – Vol. II & Vol. III

The History of the Restoration of Monarchy in France by Alphonse de Lamartine, Translated by Captain Rafter, in Four Volumes, London, George Bell & Sons, 1891 Vol. I

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Siège du palais des Tuileries by J. Chéreau, Musée de la Révolution française, CC BYSA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

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