Louis XVI: Ooooh! Your feet are like icicles.
Princesse de Lamballe: Can't you do something?
Marie-Antoinette: I'm not going to acknowledge it.
Madame du Barry: See no one treats me like a lady here.
Marie-Antoinette: I wish I could go with you.
Count Fersen: I should kidnap you.
Marie-Antoinette: I shall never forget that you are responsible for my happiness.
Duc de Choiseul: And that of France.
Duchesse de Polignac: There's something in the oysters.
Ambassador Mercy: How pretty Madame Royale is today.
Marie Therese - 6 years: I am pleased you find me so.
Marie-Antoinette: Letting everyone down would be my greatest unhappiness.
Marie-Antoinette: Am I to be Austrian or the Dauphine of France?
Ambassador Mercy: You must be both.
Answer: It was typical for royalty and the aristocracy to remain extremely "hands off" regarding child rearing. Nannies, wet nurses, and tutors tended to all their offsprings' needs, and parents usually spent relatively little time with their children. It would be considered extremely odd for a queen to engage in something so personal and common as breastfeeding her child.
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