“...A shock that could, in a few months, overthrow the monarchy that had ruled the country for thirteen centuries and change the face of France, this shock is based on a series of love affairs connected with each other in the most amazing way...Thus we get yet new evidence that love, the role of which in History modern scientists stubbornly try not to notice, was the driving force and cause of all human actions, just as in previous centuries it moved all the princes to their deeds...”