tiquette of the "jeu," see Madame de Campan,
ch. ix., p. 17, and 2 ed. 1858.

CHAPTER XVII.

[1] Mercy to Maria Teresa, June 18th, 1780, Arneth iii., p. 440.

[2] Le tabouret. See St. Simon.

[3] See _infra_, the queen's letter to Madame de Tourzel, date July 25th,
1789.

[4] "Souvenirs de Quarante Ans," by Mademoiselle de Tourzel, p. 20.

[5] "Filia dolorosa."--Chateaubriand.

[6] Napoleon, in 1814, called her the only man of her family.

[7] Madame de Campan, ch. x.

[8] Memoires de Madame d'Oberkirch, i., p. 279

[9] The Marshal Prince de Soubise, whose incapacity and cowardice caused
the disgraceful rout of Rosbach, was the head of this family; his sister,
Madame Marsan, as governess of the "children of France", had brought up
Louis XVI.

[10] "Il [Rohan] a meme menace, si on ne veut pas prendre le bon chemin
qui lui indique, que ma fille s'en ressentira."--_Marie-Therese a Mercy_,
August 28th, 1774, Arneth, ii., p. 226.

[11] "Ils paraissent si excedes du grand monde et des fetes, qu'avec
d'autres petites difficultes qui se sont elevees, nous avons decide qu'il
n'y aurait rien a Marly."--_Marie Antoinette to Mercy; Marie Antoinette,
Joseph II., and Leopold II_., p. 27.

[12] "No fewer than five actions were fought in 1782, and the spring of
1783, by those unwearied foes. De Suffrein's force was materially the
stronger of the two; it consisted of ten sail of the line, one fifty-gun
ship, and four frigates; while Sir E. Hughes had but eight sail of the
line, a fifty-gun ship, and one frigate," See the author's "History of the
British Navy," i., p. 400.

[13] Weber, i., p. 77. For the importance at this time attached to a
reception at court, see Chateaubriand, "Memoires d'Outre-tombe," i., p.
221.

CHAPTER XVIII.

[1] Joseph to Marie Antoinette, date September 9th, 1783.--_Marie
Antoinette, Joseph II., and Leopold II._, p.30, which, to save such a
lengthened reference, will hereafter be referred to as "Arneth."

[2] She was again expecting a confinement; but, as had happened between
the birth of Madame Royale and that of the dauphin, an accident
disappointed her hope, and her third child was not born till 1785.

[3] Date September 29th, 1783, Arneth, p. 35.

[4] Ministre de la maison du roi.

[5] Arneth, p. 38.

CHAPTER XIX.

[1] "Le roi signa une lettre de cachet qui defendait cette
representation."--Madame de Campan, ch. xi.; see the whole chapter. Madame
de Campan's account of th