Excerpt from Memoirs of Marie Antoinette: Queen of France and Wife of Louis XVI The closing years of the French monarchy could scarcely have found a more faithful chronicler, or one better fitted for the task both by training and situation, than Madame Campan} Introduced into the Court of Louis XV. As a young girl, she became one of the household of Marie Antoinette immediately after that princess came from Austria to wed the Dauphin; and followed the fortunes of her royal mistress with un swerving devotion until the prison gates separated them. Even then she would not have turned aside - despite the ominous shadow of the scaffold-had not the interests of her mistress and an inexorable jailer alike demanded it. But it is not through loyalty alone that Madame Campan deserves recognition as a biographer and historian. Her education and endowments, which rendered her remarkable even at a tender age, ripened with especial opportunities and experience. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.