Complex Interdependence Between Public and Private Moments: Queenly Audiences, Meetings and Precouncil

Abstract

The drafting of the diary in the year 1784 proposes a chronological arrangement of topics, simplicity of vocabulary, repetition of semantic implications and limited use of punctuation, which is incorrect. It should be noted that there is a change in handwriting that runs from 13 to 17 December. In those days, the Queen had given birth to Antoinette, the youngest daughter, whom she named after her dear sister, the Queen of France. The formal change is represented by a coded language, which has been revised and reduced. The text lacks many symbols, however, in the pages of previous years. On the other hand, it seems to have perfected her codes for “read”, “wrote” and “spoke”: