n, p. 153, quoting Madame de Campan.

[12] The most recent French historian, M.H. Martin, sees in this trial a
proof of the general demoralization of the whole French nation.
"L'impression qui en resulte pour nous est l'impossibilite que la reine
ait ete coupable. Mais plus les imputations dirigees contre elle etaient
vraisemblables, plus la creance accordee a ces imputations etait
caracteristique, et attestait la ruine morale de la monarchie. C'etait
l'ombre du Parc aux Cerfs qui couvrait toujours Versailles."--_Histoire de
France_, xvi., p. 559, ed. 1860.

[13] Feuillet de Conches, i., p. 161.

[14] Feuillet de Conches, i., p. 162. Some of the critics of M.F. de
Conches's collection have questioned without sufficient reason the
probability of there having been any correspondence between the queen and
her elder sister. But the genuineness of this letter is strongly
corroborated by a mistake into which no forger would have fallen. The
queen speaks as if the cardinal had alleged that he had given her a rose;
while his statement really was that Oliva, personating the queen, had
dropped a rose at his feet. A forger would have made the letter Correspond
with the evidence and the fact. The queen, in her agitation, might easily
make a mistake.

[15] "Il se retira dans son eveche de l'autre cote du Rhin. La sa noble
conduite fit oublier les torts de sa vie passee," etc.--Campardon, p. 156.

[16] Campardon, p. 156.

[17] It was from Ettenheim that the Duke d'Enghien was carried off in
March, 1804. The cardinal died in February, 1803.

CHAPTER XXI.

[1] "Le duc declarait de son cote a Mr. Elliott que ... si la reine l'eut
mieux traite il eut peut-etre mieux fait."--Chambrier, i., p.519

[2] Sophie Helene Beatrix, born July 9th, 1786, died June 9th, 1787, F. de
Conches, i. p. 195.

[3] See her letter to her brother, February, 1788, Arneth, p. 112.

[4] "C'est un vrai enfant de paysan, grand frais et gros."--Arneth, pp.
113.

[5] Feuillet de Conches, i, p. 195.

[6] Apparently she means the Notables and the Parliament.

[7] The Duc de Guines.

[8] See _ante_, ch. xviii.

[9] "'Il faut,' dit-il, avec un mouvement d'impatience qui lui fit
honneur, 'que, du moins, l'archeveque de Paris croie en Dieu.'"--
_Souvenirs par le Duc de Levis_, p. 102.

[10] The continuer of Sismondi's history, A. Renee, however, attributes
the archbishop's appointment to the influence of the Baron de Breteuil.

[11] "Son grand art c