Biography of Kristina in "The Town and Country Magazine", year 1774, part 4

Source:

The Town and Country Magazine, Or, Universal Repository of Knowledge, Instruction, and Entertainment, volume 6, pages 638 to 639 (December, 1774), published by Archibald Hamilton, 1774; original at Harvard University

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The biography:

She cultivated the arts in a country where, till her time, they had been unknown. Descartes taught her the elements of his new philosophy; but he saw with concern this princess spend much of her time in the dry and barren study of languages. A crowd of linguists surrounded the throne, which made strangers say, that Sweden was going to be governed by grammarians. The physician Bourdelot, son of a barber at Sens, and who, for want of other merit, endeavoured to entertain the queen with his pleasantries, threw frequent ridicule upon this kind of court. Meibom employed himself in researches after the music of the ancients, and Naudé, another learned man, had written upon the Greek and Roman dances. The humorous Bourdelot prevailed on Christina to desire these interpreters of antiquity to illustrate their reasonings by example; and the serious Meibom saw himself obliged, under pain of the queen's displeasure, to sing with his hoarse and faltering voice an air à la Grecque, while the grave Naudé executed on his part, in aukward and trembling steps, a dance à la Romaine.

Above: Kristina.