“Decidedly, these memoirs are among the best and most valuable published this autumn. No lover of biography and personalia can afford to forego the pleasure of their perusal. No historian of the period can ignore them. Incidentally, both will be under deep obligation to M. Charles Nicoullaud, the editor, whose literary adjustments have undoubtedly added to the coherence of the book and whose running commentary and appendices make its authority complete and secure.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 713. N. 9, ’07. 1180w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“Delightful reading of their kind.”
| + + | Putnam’s. 3: 370. D. ’07. 310w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“What makes these memoirs so interesting is that Madame de Boigne describes, with pitiless fidelity, the intimate life of three successive régimes, that of Louis XVI., that of Buonaparte, and that of Louis XVIII.”
| + | Sat. R. 103: 784. Je. 22, ’07. 1620w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“She was a shrewd observer, wrote cleverly, and her little cynicisms, mingled with aristocratic complacency, are extremely amusing.”
| + + | Sat. R. 104: 460. O. 12, ’07. 140w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“A readable translation, though it appears to miss the point of one of Madame de Boigne’s best stories.”
| + − | Spec. 99: 57. Jl. 13, ’07. 210w. (Review of v. 1.) |