Maria Adelaide

Portrait of Maria Adelaide of France in Turkish-style clothes.
Jean-Étienne Liotard, 1753.
Galería de los Uffizi, Florencia.

Esa tarde, Adelaide se vistió a la turca y en su deseo imparable de aprender, estuvo leyendo largas horas hasta la hora del té. En el bolso, guardaba la carta sin abrir de su padre Louis XV.

That afternoon, Adelaide dressed in Turkish-style clothes. In her unstoppable desire to learn, she read for many hours until tea time. In her bag, she kept unopened the letter from her father Louis XV.