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M. de Calonne states the falling off of the population of Paris as far more considerable; and it may be so, since the period of M. Necker's calculation. When I sent this book to the press, I entertained some doubt concerning the nature and extent of the last article in the above accounts, which is only under a general head, without any detail. Since then I have seen M. de Calonne's work.
The Princess Christine visits the Queen Hostility of the Duc d'Orléans to the Queen. Libels on her. She is called Madame Deficit. She has a Second Daughter, who dies. Ill Health of the Dauphin. Unskillfulness and Extravagance of Calonne's System of Finance. Distress of the Kingdom. He assembles the Notables. They oppose his Plans. Letters of Marie Antoinette on the Subject.
This, I hope, Your Majesty will now be able to contradict! "The King all this time was looking over the different pages containing M. de Calonne's additions on their margins. On recognising the hand-writing, His Majesty was so affected by this discovered treachery of his Minister and the agitation of his calumniated Queen that he could scarcely articulate.
This, I hope, Your Majesty will now be able to contradict! "The King all this time was looking over the different pages containing M. de Calonne's additions on their margins. On recognising the hand-writing, His Majesty was so affected by this discovered treachery of his Minister and the agitation of his calumniated Queen that he could scarcely articulate.
This report of Calonne's may be taken as the beginning of the French Revolution, for it was the first of the series of events that led to the calling of a representative assembly which abolished the old régime and gave France a written constitution. General Reading. Translations and Reprints, Vol. VI, No. 1, gives short extracts from some of the most noted writers of the eighteenth century.
On this subject I refer the reader to M. de Calonne's work, and the tremendous display that he has made of the havoc and devastation in the public estate, and in all the affairs of France, caused by the presumptuous good intentions of ignorance and incapacity. Such effects those causes will always produce.
For further elucidations upon the subject of all these judicatures and of the Committee of Research, see M. de Calonne's work.
Upon the whole, the true obstacle to this proposition has penetrated, in various ways, through the veil which covers it. The influence of the Farmers General has been heretofore found sufficient to shake a minister in his office. Monsieur de Calonne's continuance or dismission has been thought, for some time, to be on a poise.
Libels on her. She is called Madame Deficit. She has a Second Daughter, who dies. Ill Health of the Dauphin. Unskillfulness and Extravagance of Calonne's System of Finance. Distress of the Kingdom. He assembles the Notables. They oppose his Plans. Letters of Marie Antoinette on the Subject. Her Ideas of the English Parliament. Dismissal of Calonne. Character of Archbishop Loménie de Brienne.
I can testify that I have seen in the hands of the Queen a manuscript copy of the infamous memoirs of the woman De Lamotte, which had been brought to her from London, and in which all those passages where a total ignorance of the customs of Courts had occasioned that wretched woman to make blunders which would have been too palpable were corrected in M. de Calonne's own handwriting.
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