CHAPTER XVII.. [1] Mercy to Maria Teresa, June 18th, 1780, Arneth Iii., P. 440.

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

Le tabouret. See St. Simon.

See infra, the queen's letter to Madame de Tourzel, date July 25th, 1789.

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

"Filia dolorosa."--Châteaubriand.

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

Madame de Campan, ch. x.

Mémoires de Madame d'Oberkirch, i., p. 279

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.

"Il [Rohan] a même menacé, si on ne veut pas prendre le bon chemin qui lui indique, que ma fille s'en ressentira."--Marie-Thérèse à Mercy, August 28th, 1774, Arneth, ii., p. 226.

"Ils paraissent si excédés du grand monde et des fêtes, qu'avec d'autres petites difficultés qui se sont élevées, nous avons décidé qu'il n'y aurait rien à Marly."--Marie Antoinette to Mercy; Marie Antoinette, Joseph II., and Leopold II., p. 27.

"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.

Weber, i., p. 77. For the importance at this time attached to a reception at court, see Châteaubriand, "Mémoires d'Outre-tombe," i., p. 221.