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Reproduced as a Christmas card, date unknown, (a copy is in the collection of the New York Public Library)
The text which accompanied the American Weekly cover read as follows: "Isabella of Bavaria was the Whoopee Queen of France. She married Charles VI in 1385. Twice she had the opportunity to become a great Queen and wrecked it each time by wild parties, gambling, flirations--to put it mildly--and all-around frivolous folly. The odd contradiction about Isabella is that she was a good child, and, until Charles went insane, a modest and devoted wife. Then she took to every form of dissipation, lost huge sums at cards, and was put in prison twice. That great warrior, the Duke of Burgundy, rescued her and set her up in power again in Paris. Once more she had the opportunity to mend her ways and become a great Queen. Instead, through the infamous Treaty of Troyes, she sold all Northern France to the English, sowing the seed of future bloody wars. She died in poverty, hated and execrated. Nevertheless, to preserve the conventions which Isabella had quite forgotten, her body was buried beside that of her royal husband--but with no funeral or other honors."
The text which accompanied the American Weekly cover read as follows: "Isabella of Bavaria was the Whoopee Queen of France. She married Charles VI in 1385. Twice she had the opportunity to become a great Queen and wrecked it each time by wild parties, gambling, flirations--to put it mildly--and all-around frivolous folly. The odd contradiction about Isabella is that she was a good child, and, until Charles went insane, a modest and devoted wife. Then she took to every form of dissipation, lost huge sums at cards, and was put in prison twice. That great warrior, the Duke of Burgundy, rescued her and set her up in power again in Paris. Once more she had the opportunity to mend her ways and become a great Queen. Instead, through the infamous Treaty of Troyes, she sold all Northern France to the English, sowing the seed of future bloody wars. She died in poverty, hated and execrated. Nevertheless, to preserve the conventions which Isabella had quite forgotten, her body was buried beside that of her royal husband--but with no funeral or other honors."