Marie Antoinette and Her Son: An Historical Novel

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D.Appleton and Company, 1884
 

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Sayfa 35 - Louis, by the grace of God King of France and Navarre, to our dear and well-beloved Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle, greeting.
Sayfa 103 - The queen is asleep," she said, "and she has commanded us to go to rest too. Shall we do so?" The two women answered only with a shake of the head and a shrug of the shoulders. " I know very well that we are agreed," said Madame de Campan, reaching her hand to them.
Sayfa 286 - God defend me from my friends, from my enemies I can defend myself!' According to this you have caused Colonel Louis to die for friendship's sake, and rise again under another name." "Yes, general, that is it! Colonel Louis — that is, the rightful king, Louis XVII.
Sayfa 36 - The latter was still a prisoner in the Bastile. He was treated with all the respect due to his rank. He had a whole suite of apartments assigned to him; he was allowed to retain the service of both his chamberlains, and at times was permitted to see and converse with his relatives, although, it is true, in the presence of the governor of the Bastile. But Foulon was a very pious Catholic, and kept a respectful distance from the lord cardinal, who never failed on such occasions to give him his blessing.
Sayfa 212 - ... But Marie Antoinette had already unveiled her heart before God : she wanted none of those priests of reason whom the republic had appointed after it had banished or guillotined the priests of the Church. " As I am not mistress of my own will," she had written to her sister Elizabeth, " I shall have to submit if a priest is brought to me ; but I solemnly declare that I will not speak a word to him, and that I shall treat him as a person with whom I wish to have no relations.

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