Proposal for the Marriage of Marie Antoinette to the Dauphin.

CHAPTER I. Importance of Marie Antoinette in the Revolution.

Letters of Marie Antoinette on the Subject.

Marie Antoinette with her Family.

and Marie Antoinette from General Denbigh, neither of the superiors was much inclined for action.

They had many long and interesting conversations, sometimes with Marie Antoinette as a third party, sometimes by themselves.

He tried to procure the dismissal of the Abbé de Vermond, who, having been, as we have seen, the tutor of Marie Antoinette at Vienna, still remained attached to her person as her reader; and whose complete knowledge of all the ways of the court, joined to a thorough honesty and devoted fidelity to her best interests, rendered his services most valuable to his mistress in her new sphere.

We can do little more than guess at the feelings of Marie Antoinette after such a day of horrors.

It is no exaggeration to say that the history of the whole world has preserved no record of greater heroism, in either sex, than was shown by Marie Antoinette during the closing years of her life.

Paris, fire-work explosion at; state entrance of the dauphin and Marie Antoinette into; great scarcity in, September, 1789; riots in; and the Reveillon riot; riots in, July, 1789; the court removes to; insurrection in, June 20th, 1792; riots in, August 5th, 1792.

Before midday they reached Châlons, the place where they were to be met by the first detachment of De Bouillé's troops; and, when the well-known uniforms met her eye, Marie Antoinette for the first time gave full expression to her feelings.

Besides these collections, the author has consulted the lives of Marie Antoinette by Montjoye, Lafont d'Aussonne, Chambrier, and the MM.

He was the Marquis's father-in-law, the old Duke de Laverdiére, once on a time favorite of the Count d'Artois, in the days of the Vaudreuil hunting-parties at the Marquis de Conflans', and had been, it was said, the lover of Queen Mari-Antoinette between Monsieur de Coigny and Monsieur de Lauzun.

It was written by stealth, with a pencil; but no difficulties or hurry, as no acuteness of disappointment or depth of distress, could rob Marie Antoinette of her desire to confer pleasure on others, or of her inimitable gracefulness of expression.