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The officer who was there the evening before had returned to conduct the prisoners to the Tribunal. He began to call their names. "Farewell, farewell," murmured Dolores, huskily. In this parting from the friend who had loved her so long and faithfully, she experienced the first pang of anguish that had assailed her heart since she had decided to sacrifice her own life for Antoinette's sake.
"My unhappy cousin is said to be a fairy, Ma'am," said Mr. Rossitur; "and I presume all this may be referred to enchantment." "That face of Marie Antoinette's," said Mr. Carleton, smiling, "is an undisciplined one uneducated." "Uneducated!" exclaimed Mrs. Carleton.
Riesener, Roentgen, Gouthiére, Fragonard and Boucher are some of the names that stand out most distinctly as authors of the beautiful decorations of the time. Marie Antoinette's boudoir at Fontainebleau is a perfect example of the style and many of the other rooms both there and at the Petit Trianon show its great beauty, gayety and dignity combined with its richness and magnificence.
February 7, 1810, M. Champagny, Duke of Cadore, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Prince Charles of Schwarzenberg, met at the Tuileries, and signed, without the slightest hitch, the marriage contract of Napoleon and the Archduchess Marie Louise. The text was a copy almost word for word of Marie Antoinette's marriage contract, which had been signed forty years before.
"But Maria Theresa was wary, even in the midst of the credulity of her ambition. The Baron de Neni was sent by her privately to Versailles to examine, personally, whether there was anything in Marie Antoinette's conduct requiring the extreme vigilance which had been represented as indispensable.
This was not the case with Antoinette, however, and if Philip had hoped that by living apart from him and seeing him only at rare intervals she would soon cease to love him, he was mistaken. Antoinette's heart did not change.
Grand Entertainment given her by the Count de Provence. Character of the Emperor Joseph. He visits Paris and Versailles. His Feelings toward and Conversations with the King and Queen. He goes to the Opera. His Opinion of the Queen's Friends. Marie Antoinette's Letter to the Empress on his Departure. The Emperor leaves her a Letter of Advice.
Obviously it contained Deroulede's papers, the plans for Marie Antoinette's escape, the passports of which he had spoken the day before to his friend, Sir Percy Blakeney the proofs, in fact, which she had offered to the representatives of the people, in support of her denunciation of the Citizen-Deputy. After his request he had said nothing more.
He had long been acquainted with Marie Antoinette's figure and gestures and voice; while, unhappily, there was nothing in his character which was incompatible with his becoming an accomplice in any act of baseness. What followed was a drama of surprises.
"The colonies!" Ah! how can I give an adequate idea of all that awoke in my mind at the sound of these words? A fruit from there, a bird or a shell, had instantly the greatest charm for me. There were a number of things from the tropics in little Antoinette's home: a parrot, birds of many colors in a cage, and collections of shells and insects.
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