[46].  The State dinner takes place every Sunday. — La nef is a piece of plate at the center of the table containing between scented cushions, the napkins used by the king. — The essai is the tasting of each dish by the gentlemen servants and officers of the table before the king partakes of it.  And the same with the beverages. — It requires four persons to serve the king with a glass of wine and water.

[47].  When the ladies of the king’s court, and especially the princesses, pass before the king’s bed they have to make an obeisance; the palace officials salute the nef on passing that. — A priest or sacristan does the same thing on passing before the altar.

[48].  De Luynes, IX, 75,79, 105. (August, 1748, October 1748).

[49].  The king is at Marly, and here is a list of the excursions he is to make before going to Compiègne. (De Luynes, XIV, 163, May, 1755) “Sunday, June 1st, to Choisy until Monday evening. — Tuesday, the 3rd to Trianon, until Wednesday. — Thursday, the 5th, return to Trianon where he will remain until after supper on Saturday. — Monday, the 9th, to Crécy, until Friday, 13th. — Return to Crécy the 16th, until the 21st. — St. July 1st to la Muette, the 2nd, to Compiègne.”

[50].  “Marie Antoinette,” by d’Arneth and Geffroy, I. 19 (July 12, 1770).  I. 265 (January 23, 1771).  I. III. (October 18, 1770).

[51].  Marie Antoinette,” by d’Arneth and Geffroy, II, 270 (October 18, 1774).  II, 395 (November 15, 1775).  II, 295 (February 20, 1775).  III, 25 (February 11, 1777).  III, 119 (October 17, 1777).  III, 409 (March 18, 1780).

[52].  Mme. Campan, I. 147.

[53].  Nicolardot, “Journal de Louis XVI,” 129.

[54].  D’Hézecques ibid. 253. — Arthur Young, I. 215.

[55].  List of pensions paid to members of the royal family in 1771.  Duc d’Orléans, 150,000.  Prince de Condé, 100,000.  Comte de Clermont, 70,000.  Duc de Bourbon, 60,000.  Prince de Conti, 60,000.  Comte de la Marche, 60,000.  Dowager-Countess de Conti, 50,000.  Duc de Penthièvre, 50,000.  Princess de Lamballe, 50,000.  Duchess de Bourbon, 50,000.  (Archives Nationales.  O1. 710, bis).

[56].  Beugnot, I. 77.  Mme. de Genlis, “Mémoires,” ch.  XVII.  De Goncourt, “La Femme au dix-huitième siècle,” 52. — Champfort, “Caractères et Anecdotes.”

[57].  De Luynes, XVI. 57 (May, 1757).  In the army of Westphalia the Count d’Estrées, commander-in-chief; had twenty-seven secretaries, and Grimm was the twenty-eighth. — When the Duc de Richelieu set out for his government of Guyenne he was obliged to have relays of a hundred horses along the entire road.

[58].  De Luynes, XVI. 186 (October, 1757).

[59].  De Goncourt, ibid., 73, 75.

[60].  Mme. d’Epinay, “Mémoires.”  Ed. Boiteau, I. 306 (1751).