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The title "ceinture de la reine" had been given to it because in the old times queens and all other ladies had carried their purses at their girdles. The title by which the count was usually known: that of the countess was madame. St. Simon, 1709, ch. v., and 1715, ch. i, vols. vii. and xiii., ed. 1829. Ibid., 1700, ch xxx., vol. ii., p. 469. Arneth, ii, p. 206. Madame de Campan, ch. iv.
The Emperor Leopold died March 1st, 1792. Alison, ch. ix., Section 90. Arneth, p. 208. Ibid, p. 210; Feuillet de Conches, ii., p. 325. Letter, date December 3d, 1791. Feuillet de Conches, iv., p. 278. Madame de Campan, ch xix.
See the "Citizen of the World," Letter 55. Reference has often been made to Lord Chesterfield's prediction of the French Revolution. But I am not aware that any one has remarked on the equally acute foresight of Goldsmith. Letter of April 16th, 1771, Arneth, i., p. 148. Arneth, i., p. 186. Maria Teresa to Marie Antoinette, July 9th, and August 17th, Arneth, i., p. 196.
She was ordered to retire to the Abbey of Pont-aux-Dames, near Meaux. Subsequently she was allowed to return to Luciennes, a villa which her royal lover had given her. Lorraine had become a French province a few years before, on the death of Stanislaus Leczinsky, father of the queen of Louis XV. Maria Teresa to Marie Antoinette, May 18th, and to Mercy on the same day, Arneth, ii., p. 149.
Feuillet de Conches, i., p. 352. Marie Antoinette to Mercy, Feuillet de Conches, i., p. 355. Ibid., i., p. 365. Arneth, p. 140. It is remarkable that he, like one or two of the Girondin party, belonged by birth to the Huguenot persuasion, and Marat had studied medicine at Edinburgh.
Mercy to Maria Teresa, February 18th, 1778, Arneth, iii., p. 170. See Coxe's "House of Austria," ch. cxxi. The war, which was marked by no action or event of importance, was terminated by the treaty of Teschen, May 10th, 1779.
Mercy's letter, which incloses Burke's memorial, is dated the 20th, from London, so that the first portion of the queen's letter can not be regarded as an intentional answer to Burke's arguments, though it is so, as embodying all the reasons which influenced the queen. The manifesto which he left behind him when starting for Montmédy. The king. Feuillet de Conches, ii., p. 228; Arneth, p. 203.
For the letters written by Marie Antoinette to her mother and her family had been religiously preserved, and were in his custody. Before the end of the year Arneth produced the very words of the letters, as the Empress received them; and then it was discovered that they were quite different from those which had been printed at Paris.
"Ne soyez pas honteuse d'être allemande jusqu'aux gaucheries.... Le Français vous estimera plus et fera plus de compte sur vous s'il vous trouve la solidité et la franchise allemande." Maria Teresa to Marie Antoinette. May 8th, 1771, Arneth, i., p. 159. Walpole's letter to Sir H. Mann, June 8th, 1771, v., p. 301. Mercy to Maria Teresa, January 23d, 1772, Arneth, i., p. 265.
When Mercy remonstrated with her on her relapse into some of her old habits from which at first she seemed to have weaned herself, "La seule réponse que j'aie obtenu a été la crainte de s'ennuyer." Mercy to Maria Teresa, November 19th, 1777, Arneth, iii., p. 13. See Marie Antoinette's account to her mother of his quarrel with the Duchess de Bourbon at a bal de l'opéra, Arneth, iii., p. 174.
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