"Memoirs of Marie Antoinette"

Published: June 9, 2021, 5:41 a.m.

The closing years of the French monarchy could scarcely have found a more faithful chronicler, or one better fitted for the task both by training and situation, than Madame Campan. Introduced into the Court of Louis XVas a young girl, she became one of the household of Marie Antoinette immediately after that princess came from Austria to wed the Dauphin, the King\u2019s heir; and followed the fortunes of her royal mistress with unswerving devotion until the prison gates separated them.