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"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.
In the Memoirs of Madame d'Oberkirch she tells us how much she disliked and distrusted Cagliostro, always avoiding him, and warning Cardinal Rohan against him in vain.
To make such a choice, to commit temporal suicide, the very young should surely not be admitted. Mathieu, 43. Chassin, 25. Boiteau, 176. Bailly, 421. Mme. d'Oberkirch, 127. Mme. de Genlis, Dict. des Etiquettes, i. Ill n., Le Comte de Fersen et la Cour de France, I. xxix. The secular clergy was about as numerous as the regular.
Distress and discontent in France in 1771; general, caused by the severity of the winter of 1788-89. D'Oberkirch, Madame Donkey-riding; horse-riding.
"The queen was marvelously beautiful; she fascinated every eye. It was absolutely impossible for any one to display a greater grace and nobility of demeanor. " Madame d'Oberkirch, like herself, was German by birth; and Marie Antoinette begged her to speak German to her, that she might refresh her recollection of her native language; but she found that she had almost forgotten it.
Paul himself cared but little for female attractions or graces; but the archduchess was charmed with her union of liveliness and dignity, which surpassed all her previous experiences of courts; and one of her ladies, Madame d'Oberkirch, who has left behind her some memoirs, to which all succeeding writers have been indebted for many particulars of this visit, could scarcely find words to describe the impression the queen's beauty had made upon her and all her fellow-travelers.