Produced by Al Haines [Frontispiece: Marie Antoinette] MARIE ANTOINETTE AND THE DOWNFALL OF ROYALTY BY IMBERT DE SAINT-AMAND _TRANSLATED BY_ ELIZABETH GILBERT MARTIN _WITH PORTRAIT_ NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1899 COPYRIGHT, 1891, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS. {v} CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE I. PARIS AT THE BEGINNING OF 1792 . . . . . . . . . 1 II. COUNT DE FERSON'S LAST JOURNEY TO PARIS . . . . 14 III. THE DEATH OF THE EMPEROR LEOPOLD . . . . . . . . 23 IV. THE DEATH OF GUSTAVUS III . . . . . . . . . . . 32 V. THE BEGINNINGS OF MADAME ROLAND . . . . . . . . 46 VI. MADAME ROLAND'S ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE . . . . . 60 VII. MARIE ANTOINETTE AND MADAME ROLAND . . . . . . . 73 VIII. MADAME ROLAND AT THE MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR . 85 IX. DUMOURIEZ, MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS . . . . . 94 X. THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 XI. THE FÊTE OF THE SWISS OF CHATEAUVIEUX . . . . . 110 XII. THE DECLARATION OF WAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 XIII. THE DISBANDING OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL GUARD . . . 137 XIV. THE SUFFERINGS OF LOUIS XVI . . . . . . . . . . 148 XV. ROLAND'S DISMISSAL FROM OFFICE . . . . . . . . . 158 XVI. A THREE DAYS' MINISTRY . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 XVII. THE PROLOGUE TO JUNE TWENTIETH . . . . . . . . . 176 XVIII. THE MORNING OF JUNE TWENTIETH . . . . . . . . . 186 {vi} XIX. THE INVASION OF THE TUILERIES . . . . . . . . . 198 XX. MARIE ANTOINETTE ON JUNE TWENTIETH . . . . . . . 210 XXI. THE MORROW OF JUNE TWENTIETH . . . . . . . . . . 219 XXII. LAFAYETTE IN PARIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 XXIII. THE LAMOURETTE KISS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 XXIV. THE FÊTE OF THE FEDERATION IN 1792 . . . . . . . 248 XXV. THE LAST DAYS AT THE TUILERIES . . . . . . . . . 259 XXVI. THE PROLOGUE TO THE TENTH OF AUGUST . . . . . . 267 XXVII. THE NIGHT OF AUGUST NINTH TO TENTH . . . . . . . 275 XXVIII. THE MORNING OF AUGUST TENTH . . . . . . . . . . 284 XXIX. THE BOX OF THE LOGOGRAPH . . . . . . . . . . . . 299 XXX. THE COMBAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306 XXXI. THE RESULTS OF THE COMBAT . . . . . . . . . . . 316 XXXII. THE ROYAL FAMILY IN THE CONVENT OF THE FEUILLANTS 329 XXXIII. THE TEMPLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337 XXXIV. THE PRINCESS DE LAMBALLE'S MURDER . . . . . . . 350 XXXV. THE SEPTEMBER MASSACRES . . . . . . . . . . . . 359 XXXVI. MADAME ROLAND DURING THE MASSACRES . . . . . . . 372 XXXVII. THE PROCLAMATION OF THE REPUBLIC . . . . . . . . 384 INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395 {1} MARIE ANTOINETTE AND THE DOWNFALL OF ROYALTY. I. PARIS AT THE BEGINNING OF 1792.