"What do you make of these threatening verses?... Pray heaven you speak truly, Madame d’Adhémar, however, these are st…"

"We made our entrance into Paris. As for honors, we received all that we could possibly imagine; but they, though very…"

"Madame d'Adhémar, here is another missive from my unknown. Have you not heard people talking again of the Comte de St…"

"We had a beautiful dream and that was all. The interest of my son is the only guide I have, and whatever happiness I …"

"The King of Prussia is innately a bad neighbor, but the English will also always be bad neighbors to France, and the …"

"Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?"

"I have come, Sire, to complain of one of your subjects who has been so audacious as to kick me in the belly."

"It is quite certain that in seeing the people who treat us so well despite their own misfortune, we are more obliged …"

"No harm will come to me. The Assembly is prepared to treat us leniently."

"In a month’s time, I shall be able to give your Majesty news of the Comtesse de Provence, for the marriage is fixed f…"