22 ([return])
One grudges to interfere with the beautiful theatrical “candle,” which Madame Campan (i. 79) has lit on this occasion, and blown out at the moment of death. What candles might be lit or blown out, in so large an Establishment as that of Versailles, no man at such distance would like to affirm: at the same time, as it was two o’clock in a May Afternoon, and these royal Stables must have been some five or six hundred yards from the royal sick-room, the “candle” does threaten to go out in spite of us. It remains burning indeed—in her fantasy; throwing light on much in those Mémoires of hers.
23 ([return])
Turgot’s Letter: Condorcet, Vie de Turgot (Œuvres de Condorcet, t. v.), p. 67. The date is 24th August, 1774.
24 ([return])
Campan, i. 125.
25 ([return])
Ib. i. 100-151. Weber, i. 11-50.
26 ([return])
Besenval, ii. 282-330.