Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Volume 1 / Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen

Friendship and the tenderest cares succeeded for a moment in calming her grief, but not in diminishing its power.

in that people whose vilest scoffs pursued her to the scaffold, who could have recognised the generous people of France? Of all the crimes which disgraced the Revolution, none was more calculated to show how the spirit of party can degrade the character of a nation.