This journal entry by the Marquis de Bombelle is dated 4 May 1789 telling in a first-hand account of a church service attended by King Louis XVI just before the uprising of the French Revolution. In describing it as a journal input, it can be categorized as a private primary source and it reads like a reliable account of what happened on that day. We know that the person who wrote this is a court aristocrat, and being that, he was able to describe the nobles as well as the holy orders present for the mass, ignoring the normal folk. From his vantage point of view, he could tell what the scene looks like - the purple velvet or satin strews with fleurs de lis embroidered in gold. He was also able to describe the weather as being brilliant after a downpour overnight. In its limitations, the account of the...