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Title: Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty

Author: Imbert de Saint-Amand

Translator: Elizabeth Gilbert Martin

Release Date: May 18, 2010 [EBook #32408]

Language: English

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MARIE ANTOINETTE

AND

THE DOWNFALL OF ROYALTY

BY

IMBERT DE SAINT-AMAND

_TRANSLATED BY_

ELIZABETH GILBERT MARTIN

_WITH PORTRAIT_

NEW YORK

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

1899

COPYRIGHT, 1891, BY

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS.

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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. PARIS AT THE BEGINNING OF 1792 . . . . . . . . . 1
II. COUNT DE FERSON'S LAST JOURNEY TO PARIS . . . . 14
III. THE DEATH OF THE EMPEROR LEOPOLD . . . . . . . . 23
IV. THE DEATH OF GUSTAVUS III . . . . . . . . . . . 32
V. THE BEGINNINGS OF MADAME ROLAND . . . . . . . . 46
VI. MADAME ROLAND'S ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE . . . . . 60
VII. MARIE ANTOINETTE AND MADAME ROLAND . . . . . . . 73
VIII. MADAME ROLAND AT THE MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR . 85
IX. DUMOURIEZ, MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS . . . . . 94
X. THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
XI. THE FETE OF THE SWISS OF CHATEAUVIEUX . . . . . 110
XII. THE DECLARATION OF WAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
XIII. THE DISBANDING OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL GUARD . . . 137
XIV. THE SUFFERINGS OF LOUIS XVI . . . . . . . . . . 148
XV. ROLAND'S DISMISSAL FROM OFFICE . . . . . . . . . 158
XVI. A THREE DAYS' MINISTRY . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
XVII. THE PROLOGUE TO JUNE TWENTIETH . . . . . . . . . 176
XVIII. THE MORNING OF JUNE TWENTIETH . . . . . . . . . 186

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XIX. THE INVASION OF THE TUILERIES . . . . . . . . . 198
XX. MARIE ANTOINETTE ON JUNE TWENTIETH . . . . . . . 210
XXI. THE MORROW OF JUNE