‘I cannot express my repugnance, my grief, my pain, my troubled state, my vexation, and my shame, at having to appear thus publicly at Court in the dress and position of a female; but the King’s council considered such a change indispensable.... What appeared to some as extraordinary and degrading in an old chevalier of Saint Louis, appeared to others as most natural, reasonable, and noble, and the refrain of the ladies at Court to the chevaliers of Saint Louis was to this effect: “Since your Chevalier D’Eon is a female, it is but right she should dress as one, and we wish it for our glory.” ‘My first duty on resuming female attire was to communicate in the chapel of the Virgin behind the choir of the cathedral at Paris; then at that of St. Sulpitius, where I had been confirmed and had taken the name of Mary, and where I had also communicated for the first time. I afterwards communicated in the chapel of St. Geneviève in Paris, in the beautiful chapel of the Virgin at St. Roch, and again in the church of the sisterhood of St. Mary at Chaillot. In being stripped of man’s estate and of my uniform, I am divested of every vice and of every danger incidental to such a condition; and being invested with the character of a female, am forced, in spite of myself, to adopt the vocations and virtues incumbent thereon.’[336] [Sidenote: MARIE ANTOINETTE’S HOUSEHOLD.] Household of Marie Antoinette at the time of the Chevalière’s introduction:— Madame Misery _First Lady-in-Waiting._ Madame Campan[337] _Second Lady-in-Waiting._ Mdlle. Adelaïde Genest[337] _Third Lady-in-Waiting._ Guimard _Groom-in-Waiting to the late Louis XV._ Lasone _Physician._