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[1] They have not, however, been preserved.
[2] Mercy to Maria Teresa, June 16th, 1773, Arneth, i., p. 467.
[3] "Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI., et la Famille Royale", p. 23.
[4] Marie Antoinette to Maria Theresa, July 17th, Arneth, ii., p. 8.
[5] "Histoire de Marie Antoinette," par M. de Goncourt, p. 50. Quoting an unpublished journal by M.M. Hardy, in the Royal Library.
[6] It is the name by which she is more than once described in Madame du Deffand's letters. See her "Correspondence," ii., p. 357.
[7] Mercy to Maria Teresa, December 11th, 1773, Arneth, ii., p. 81.
[8] "Mémoires de Besenval," i., p. 304.