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"Count Fersen and the Austrian Ambassador now entered, both anxious to know Her Majesty's intentions with regard to visiting the theatre, in order to make a party to ensure her a good reception; but all their persuasions were unavailing.
But what does the Swedish ambassador whose name I noticed on the list of applicants for interviews with myself here among the representatives of the German princes?" "He pretends to participate in the congress of peace because Sweden warranted the execution of the treaty of Westphalia," exclaimed Jean Debry, shrugging his shoulders. "This M. Fersen is a royalist.
At the hamlet of Bondy they were to meet the two waiting-women, with their luggage in the new chaise, and postilions with fresh horses. There they were at Bondy, while every one else was asleep. They had been waiting some time. Here Count Fersen took his leave. How must the party have felt towards him!
Lamartine, "Histoire des Girondins," xiii., p.18. The messenger was M. Goguelat: he took the name of M. Daumartin, and adhered to the cause of his sovereigns to the last moment of their lives. In many respects the information De Fersen sends to his king tallies precisely with that sent by Breteuil to the emperor; he only adds a few circumstances which had not reached the baron.
Roederer, M. Rohan, Cardinal Prince de. Roland, Madame, urging secret assassinations of the king and queen; and Robespierre; death of. Romenf, M. "Rose of the North," a name given to the Countess de Fersen. Rosenburg, Count de. Rousseau, Jean Jacques. Royal family, the, preparing to escape; arrested; authority suspended. Royalists, the name first used as a reproach.
On a later day he declined all direct responsibility, and said that he followed the coach in consequence of orders forwarded from Châlons, not on his own initiative or conjecture. When he gave the second version he was a prisoner among the Austrians, and the questioner before whom he stood was Fersen.
So on they went, through the north entrance, turning immediately eastwards; and when fairly free of Paris, they came in sight of the great coach, waiting by the roadside, with its six horses, and the Count's coachman on the box. The party made haste to settle themselves in the berlin; for too much time had been lost already. Count Fersen was again the driver.
De Fersen drove them to the Porte St. Martin, where the great traveling-carriage was waiting, and, having transferred them to it, and taken a respectful leave of them, he fled at once to Brussels, which, more fortunate than those for whom he had risked his life, he reached in safety. For a hundred miles the royal fugitives proceeded rapidly and without interruption.
During the last few days the queen has not taken her eyes off him, and as she gazed they were full of tears. I beg your majesty to keep their secret to yourself. The queen wept because Fersen had resolved to leave her lest she should be exposed to further gossip. If he left her without any apparent reason, the gossip would only be the more intense.
"Why, the Queen left it to her waiting-woman, with secret instructions to forward it to Count Fersen. After being piously preserved in the count's family, it has been, for the last five years, in a glass case " "A glass case?" "In the Musee Carnavalet, quite simply." "When will the museum be open?" "At twenty minutes from now, as it is every morning."
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