The Private Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France and Navarre; With Sketches and Anecdotes of the Court of Louis XVI. (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1887 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXII Pe'tion refuses Madame Campan permission to be imprisoned in the Temple with the Queen--She excites the suspicions of Robespierre--Domiciliary visits--Madame Campan opens the portfolio she had received from the King--Papers in it, with the seals of State--Mirabeau's secret correspondence with the Court--Destroyed as well as the other papers--The only document preserved--It is delivered to M. de Malesherbes on the trial of the unfortunate Louis XVI.--End of the Memoirs. The Queen having been robbed of her purse as she was passing from the Tuileries to the Feuillans, requested my sister to lend her twenty-five louis.1 I spent part of the day at the Feuillans, and her Majesty told me she would ask Pe'tion to let me be with her in the place which the Assembly should decree for her prison. I then returned home to prepare everything that might be necessary for me to accompany her. On the same day (i ith August) at nine in the evening I returned to the Feuillans. I found there were orders at all the gates forbidding my being admitted. I claimed a right to enter by virtue of the first permission which had been given to me; I was again refused. I was told that the Queen had as many people as were requisite about her. My sister was with her as well as one of my companions, who came out of the prisons of the Abbaye on the nth. I renewed my solicitations on the 12th; my tears and entreaties moved neither the keepers of the gates, nor even a deputy, to whom I addressed myself. 1 On being interrogated the Queen declared that these five-and-twenty louis had been lent to her by my sister j this formed a pretence for arresting her and me, and led to her death.--Madame Campan. I soon heard of the removal of Louis XVI. and his family to the Temple. I went to Pe't...