OF

MARIA ANTOINETTA,

ARCHDUCHESS OF AUSTRIA,

QUEEN OF FRANCE AND NAVARRE;

INCLUDING

SEVERAL IMPORTANT PERIODS OF THE

French Revolution;

FROM ITS ORIGIN TO THE 16th OF OCTOBER, 1795,

THE DAY OF HER MAJESTY'S MARTYRDOM:

with a

NARRATIVE OF THE TRIAL AND MARTYRDOM OF MADAME ELIZABETH;
THE POISONING OF LOUIS XVII IN THE TEMPLE;

THE LIBERATION OF MADAME ROYALE, DAUGHTER OF LOUIS XVI;
AND VARIOUS SUBSEQUENT EVENTS.

BY JOSEPH WEBER,

Foster-brother of the unfortunate Queen, formerly employed in the Department
of the Finances of France, and now a Pensioner of His Royal Highness
the Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen.

Quæque ipse miserrima vidi. VIRG.

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH,
By R. C. DALLAS, Esq.

VOL. I.

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CHAPTER I.

BIRTH of the Queen-Her Education, Departure

from Vienna, Marriage, Prosperity, Character, and

generally all that relates to her previous to the Com-

mencement of the French Revolution.

P. 1

CHAPTER II.

Immediate Causes, and remote Sources, of the French

Revolution-Louis XIV.-The Regency-Louis XV.

-Louis XVI.-Convocation of the States-General in

1789.

P. 101

CHAPTER III.

The Convocation of the States-General continued-Fall

of the Archbishop of Sens-Recall of Mr. Necker-

Second Assembly of the Notables-Meeting of the

States-General-Situation of the Queen at this Period,

and five Years before.
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