Excerpt from The Private Life of Marie Antoinette: Queen of France and Navarre With Sketches and Anecdotes of the Courts of Louis Louis XIV., Louis XV., And Louis XVIThe courtyards Of the Chateau were thronged with an im mense concourse of people, they demanded that the King and Queen, with their children, should make their appearance in the balcony. The Queen gave me the key of the inner doors, which led to the Dauphin's apartments, and desired me to go to the Duchesse de Polignac to tell her that she wanted her son, and had directed me to bring him myself into her room, where she waited to show him to the people. The Duchess said this order indicated that she was not to accompany the Prince. I did not answer, she squeezed my hand, saying, Ah! Madame Campan, what a blow I receive! She em braced the child and me with tears. She knew how much I loved and valued the goodness and the noble simplicity Of her disposition. I endeavoured to reassure her by saying that I should bring back the Prince to her, but she persisted, and said she understood the order, and knew what it meant. She then retired to her private room, holding her handker chief to her eyes. One of the under-governesses asked me whether she might go with the Dauphin, I told her the Queen had given no order to the contrary, and we hastened to her Majesty, who was waiting to lead the Prince to the balcony.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.