ress, who negotiated
the alliances with France and Russia, which were the preparations for the
Seven Years' War.

CHAPTER XV.

[1] "On assure que sa majeste ne joue pas bien; ce que personne, excepte
le roi, n'a ose lui dire. Au contraire, on l'applaudit a tout rompre."--
_Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI. et la Famille Royale_ p. 203, date September
28th, 1780.

[2] In May, 1780, Sir Henry Clinton took Charleston, with a great number
of prisoners, a great quantity of stores and four hundred guns.--LORD
STANHOPE'S _History of England_, ch. lxii.

[3] "Cette disposition a ete faite deux ans plutot que ne le comporte
l'usage etabli pour les enfants de France."--_Mercy to Maria Teresa_,
October 14th, Arneth, iii. p. 476.

[4] Madame de Campan, ch. ix.

[5] "Gustave III. et la Cour de France," i., p. 349.

[6] An order known as that "du Merite" had been recently distributed for
foreign Protestant officers, whose religion prevented them from taking the
oath required of the Knights of the Grand Order of St. Louis.

[7] "Sa figure et son air convenaient parfaitement a un heros de roman,
mais non pas d'un roman francais; il n'en avait ni le brillant ni
legerete."--_Souvenirs et Portraits_, par M. de Levis, p. 130.

[8] "La Marck et Mirabeau," p. 32.

[9] See his letter to Lord North proposing peace, date December 1st, 1780.
Lord Stanhope's "History of England," vol. vii., Appendix, p. 13.

CHAPTER XVI.

[1] "Gustave III. et la Cour de France," i., p. 357.

[2] Chambrier, i., p. 430; "Gustave III.," etc., i., p. 353.

[3] "Gustave III.," etc., i., p. 353.

[4] "Memoires de Weber," i., p. 50.

[5] "On s'arretait dans les rues, on se parlait sans se connaitre."--
Madame de Campan, ch. ix.

[6] L'Oeil de Boeuf.

[7] Madame de Campan, ch. ix.; "Marie Antoinette, Louis XII., et la
Famille Royale," p. 238.

[8] "Un soleil d'ete"--Weber, i., p. 53.

[9] La Muette derived its name from _les mues_ of the deer who were reared
there. It had been enlarged by the Regent d'Orleans, who gave it to his
daughter, the Duchess de Berri; and it, was the frequent scene of the
orgies of that infamous father and daughter, while more recently it had
been known as the Parc aux Cerfs, under which title it had acquired a
still more infamous reputation.

[10] "Apres le diner il y eut appartement jeu, et la fete fut terminee par
un feu d'artifice."--Weber, i., p. 57, from whom the greater part of those
details are taken. For the e