Andrew Roberts
Andrew's favourite line is from Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France
In 1790, the philosopher Edmund Burke wrote about the French revolution that had only broken out the year before in his ‘Reflections on the Revolution in France’ and in it, he wrote about Marie Antoinette, and he said this:
“It is now 16 or 17 years since I saw the Queen of France at Versailles and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendour and joy. I thought 10,000 swords must have leapt from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult, but the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever”.
