“I am charged for my brother and myself to embrace you with all my heart.—­M.T. [MARIA TERESA], LOUIS.”  And another by the Princess Elizabeth:  “I enjoy beforehand the pleasure which you will feel in receiving this pledge of love and confidence.  To be reunited to you and to see you happy is all that I desire.  You know if I love you.  I embrace you with all my heart.—­ E.”  The letters were shown by the Count de Provence to Clery, whom he allowed to take a copy of them.—­CLERY’S Journal, p. 174.

[3] “Memoires” de la Duchesse d’Angouleme, p. 56.

[4] It was burned in 1871, in the time of the Commune.

[5] Feuillet de Conches, vi., p. 499.  The letter is neither dated nor signed.

[6] Lanjuinais had subsequently the singular fortune of gaining the confidence of both Napoleon and Lounis XVIII.  The decree against him was reversed in 1795, and he became a professor at Rennes.  Though he had opposed the making of Napoleon consul for life, Napoleon gave him a place in his Senate; and at the first restoration, in 1814, Louis XVIII named him a peer of France.  He died in 1827.

[7] Some of the apologists of the Girondins—­nearly all the oldest criminals of the Revolution have found defenders, except perhaps Marat and Robespierre—­have affirmed that the Girondins, though they had not courage to give their votes to save the life of Louis, yet hoped to save him by voting for an appeal to the people; but the order in which the different questions were put to the Convention is a complete disproof of this plea.  The first question put was, Was Louis guilty?  They all voted “Oui” (Lacretelle, x., p. 403).  But though on the second question, whether this verdict should be submitted to the people for ratification, many of them did vote for such an appeal being made, yet after the appeal had been rejected by a majority of one hundred and forty-two, and the third question, “What penalty shall be inflicted on Louis?” (Lacretelle, x., p. 441) was put to the Convention, they all except Lanjuinais voted for “death.”  The majorities were, on their question, 683 to 66; on the second, 423 to 281; on the third, 387 to 334; so that on this last, the fatal question, it would have been easy for the Girondins to have turned the scale.  And Lamartine himself expressly affirms (xxxv., p.5) that the king’s life depended on the Girondin vote, and that his death was chiefly owing to Vergniaud.

[8] Goncourt, p. 370, quoting “Fragments de Turgy.”

[9] “S’en defaire.”—­Louis XVII., sa Vie, son Agonie, sa Mort, par M. de Beauchesne, quoting Senart.  See Croker’s “Essays on the Revolution,” p. 266.

[10] Duchesse d’Angouleme, p. 78.

[11] See a letter from Miss Chowne to Lord Aukland, September 23d, 1793, Journal, etc., of Lord Aukland, ii., p. 517.

[12] “Le peuple la recut non seulement comme une reine adoree, mais il semblait aussi qu’il lui savait gre d’etre charmante,” p.5, ed. 1820.