![]() Around eight years later, "Breaking news" could have preceded the morning alerts that Their Majesties had finally and fully consummated the politically arranged marriage. ![]() The news filtered through the corridors of Versailles, wending its way down an amazing chain of rank and station until the word got blasted far beyond the gates of Versailles, past the borders of France, over to Austria and to the attention of Empress Maria Theresa - mother of the bride. The topmost attendant to the Royal Sheets was the first to lay eyes on - a lack of evidence. Her job was to provide France with an heir. ![]() The morning after the marriage of the Dauphin of France to 14-and-a-half-year-old Marie Antoinette, the tongues began wagging about the sex life of the future Queen of France. ![]()
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