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    Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Volume 1 Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen
    Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Volume 1 Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen
    Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Volume 1 Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen
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    Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Volume 1 Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen

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      Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Volume 1 Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen - Mme (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) Campan

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, Queen Of France, Volume 1, by Madame Campan

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      Title: The Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, Queen Of France, Volume 1 Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen

      Author: Madame Campan

      Release Date: December 4, 2004 [EBook #3884]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MARIE ANTOINETTE ***

      Produced by David Widger

      MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF

      MARIE ANTOINETTE,

      QUEEN OF FRANCE

      Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan,

      First Lady in Waiting to the Queen

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      Duchesse du Barry

      Princesse de Lamballe

      The Parisian Bonne

      Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette

      Beaumarchais

      The Reveille

      Madame Adelaide as Diana

      The Bastille

      Opening of The States General

      Louis XVI.

      Marie Antoinette on the way to the Guillotine

      Madame Campan

      PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR.

      Louis XVI. possessed an immense crowd of confidants, advisers, and guides; he selected them even from among the factions which attacked him. Never, perhaps, did he make a full disclosure to any one of them, and certainly he spoke with sincerity, to but very few. He invariably kept the reins of all secret intrigues in his own hand; and thence, doubtless, arose the want of cooperation and the weakness which were so conspicuous in his measures. From these causes considerable chasms will be found in the detailed history of the Revolution.

      In order to become thoroughly acquainted with the latter years of the reign of Louis XV., memoirs written by the Duc de Choiseul, the Duc d'Aiguillon, the Marechal de Richelieu,

      [I heard Le Marechal de Richelieu desire M. Campan, who was librarian to the Queen, not to buy the Memoirs which would certainly be attributed to him after his death, declaring them false by anticipation; and adding that he was ignorant of orthography, and had never amused himself with writing. Shortly after the death of the Marshal, one Soulavie put forth Memoirs of the Marechal de Richelieu.]

      and the Duc de La Vauguyon, should be before us. To give us a faithful portrait of the unfortunate reign of Louis XVI., the Marechal du Muy, M. de Maurepas, M. de Vergennes, M. de Malesherbes, the Duc d'Orleans, M. de La Fayette, the Abby de Vermond, the Abbe Montesquiou, Mirabeau, the Duchesse de Polignac, and the Duchesse de Luynes should have noted faithfully in writing all the transactions in which they took decided parts. The secret political history of a later period has been disseminated among a much greater number of persons; there are Ministers who have published memoirs, but only when they had their own measures to justify, and then they confined themselves to the vindication of their own characters, without which powerful motive they probably would have written nothing. In general, those nearest to the Sovereign, either by birth or by office, have left no memoirs; and in absolute monarchies the mainsprings of great events will be found in particulars which the most exalted persons alone could know. Those who have had but little under their charge find no subject in it for a book; and those who have long borne the burden of public business conceive themselves to be forbidden by duty, or by respect for authority, to disclose all they know. Others, again, preserve notes, with the intention of reducing them to order when they shall have reached the period of a happy leisure; vain illusion of the ambitious, which they cherish, for the most part, but as a veil to conceal from their sight the hateful image of their inevitable downfall! and when it does at length take place, despair or chagrin deprives them of fortitude to dwell upon the dazzling period which they never cease to regret.

      Louis XVI. meant to write his own memoirs; the manner in which his private papers were arranged indicated this design. The Queen also had the same intention; she long preserved a large correspondence, and a great number of minute reports, made in the spirit and upon the event of the moment. But after the 20th of June, 1792, she was obliged to burn the larger portion of what she had so collected, and the remainder were conveyed out of France.

      Considering the rank and situations of the persons I have named as capable of elucidating by their writings the history of our political storms, it will not be imagined that I aim at placing myself on a level with them; but I have spent half my life either with the daughters of Louis XV. or with Marie Antoinette. I knew the characters of those Princesses; I became privy to some extraordinary facts, the publication of which may be interesting, and the truth of the details will form the merit of my work.

      I was very young when I

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