[6] Narrative of the Comte Valentin Esterhazy, Feuillet de Conches, iv., p. 40.
[7] The queen spoke plainly to her confidants: "M. de La Fayette will only be the Mayor of Paris that he may the sooner become Mayor of the Palace. Pétion is a Jacobin, a republican; but he is a fool, incapable of ever becoming the leader of a party. He would be a nullity as mayor, and, besides, the very interest which he knows we take in his nomination may bind him to the king."—Lamartine's Histoire des Girondins vi., p.22.
[8] "Elle [Madame d'Ossun, dame d'atours de la reine] m'a dit, il y a trois semaines, que le roi et la reine avaiet été neuf jours sans un sou." Letter of the Prince de Nassau-Siegen to the Russian Empress Catherine, Feuillet de Conches, iv., p. 316; of also Madame de Campan, ch. xxi.
[9] Letter of the Princess to Madame de Bombelles, Feuillet de Conches, v., p.267.
[10] "N'est-il pas bien gentil, mon enfant?"—Mémoires Particuliers, p. 235.
[11] See two most insolent letters from the Count de Provence and Count d'Artois to Louis XVI, Feuillet de Conches, v., pp. 260, 261.
[12] Feuillet de Conches, iv., p. 291
CHAPTER XXXIV.
[1] Letter to Madame de Polignac, March 17th, Feuillet de Conches, v., p. 337.
[2] The Monks of St. Bernard were known as Feuillants, from Feuillans, a village in Languedoc where their principal convent was situated.