Marie Therese Louise de Savoie-Carignan Lamballe Secret Memoirs of Princess Lamballe

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. How the Princess's journal came to light is narrated in the following pages. It is edited and annotated, in a liberal sense of those terms, by the lady who, in her youth, was the confidential secretary and messenger, in fact a diplomatic maid-of-all-work, of the Princess. From the copious diary of the latter, supplemented by the graphic and elaborate additions and comments of the brillantly gifted editor, to whose care the diary was in trusted, we get a most impressive realization of the life endured by Louis XVI. And Marie Antoinette in those appalling years of doom.