The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France

Produced by Anne Soulard, Michigan University, Joshua Hutchinson and
the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
1876
Besides these collections, the author has consulted the lives of Marie Antoinette by Montjoye, Lafont d'Aussonne, Chambrier, and the MM. Goncourt; La Vraie Marie Antoinette of M. Lescure; the Memoirs of Mme. Campan, Cléry, Hue, the Duchesse d'Angoulême, Bertrand de Moleville ( Mémoires Particuliers ), the Comte de Tilly, the Baron de Besenval, the Marquis de la Fayette, the Marquise de Créquy, the Princess Lamballe; the Souvenirs de Quarante Ans, by Mlle. de Tourzel; the Diary of M. de Viel Castel; the correspondence of Mme. du Deffand; the account of the affair of the necklace by M. de Campardon; the very valuable correspondence between the Count de la Marck and Mirabeau, which also contains a narrative by the Count de la Marck of many very important incidents; Dumont's Souvenirs sur Mirabeau; Beaumarchais et son Temps, by M. de Loménie; Gustavus III. et la Cour de Paris, by M. Geoffroy; the first seven volumes of the Histoire de la Terreur, by M. Mortimer Ternaux; Dr. Moore's journal of his visit to France, and view of the French Revolution; and a great number of other works in which there is cursory mention of different incidents, especially in the earlier part of the Revolution; such as the journals of Arthur Young, Madame de Staël's elaborate treatise on the Revolution; several articles in the last series of the Causeries de Lundi, by Sainte-Beuve, and others in the Revue des Deux Mondes , etc., etc., and to those may of course be added the regular histories of Lacretelle, Sismondi, Martin, and Lamartine's History of the Girondins.
Importance of Marie Antoinette in the Revolution.—Value of her Correspondence as a Means of estimating her Character.—Her Birth, November 2d, 1755.—Epigram of Metastasio.—Habits of the Imperial Family.—Schönbrunn.—Death of the Emperor.—Projects for the Marriage of the Archduchess.—Her Education.—The Abbé de Vermond.—Metastasio.— Gluck.