CHAPTER VII. [1] They Have Not, However, Been Preserved.

They have not, however, been preserved.

Mercy to Maria Teresa, June 16th, 1773, Arneth, i., p. 467.

"Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI., et la Famille Royale", p. 23.

Marie Antoinette to Maria Theresa, July 17th, Arneth, ii., p. 8.

"Histoire de Marie Antoinette," par M. de Goncourt, p. 50. Quoting an unpublished journal by M.M. Hardy, in the Royal Library.

It is the name by which she is more than once described in Madame du Deffand's letters. See her "Correspondence," ii., p. 357.

Mercy to Maria Teresa, December 11th, 1773, Arneth, ii., p. 81.

"Mémoires de Besenval," i., p. 304.