I find it difficult to believe that just a week or two ago I felt as lighthearted as the former Dauphine of France I once was ( Read more... )

On how I stormed and raged at having to speak those banal little words to Madame du Barry. How offended I was with her, believing her to have been a prostitute before becoming Gran'pere's favorite. The self-righteousness of the young ( Read more... )

Madame Antonia von Fersen ( Read more... )