LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Reading edition
The Last Act of the French Monarchy. Order given on 10th August, 1792, to the Guard at the Tuileries to cease fire and return to Barracks Frontispiece
Maria Theresa - From the tapestry portrait woven for Marie Antoinette and recently restored to Versailles 13
Madame de Pompadour - From the Portrait by Boucher in the National Gallery, Edinburgh. From a photo by T. R. Annan & Sons 18
The First Dauphin (the Father of Louis XVI.) 26
Louis XVI. - From the principal bust at Versailles 70
The Emperor Joseph II. - From the tapestry portrait woven for Marie Antoinette and recently restored to Versailles 103
Marie Antoinette - From the principal bust at Versailles 117
The Countess of Provence - From the bust at Versailles 129
Marie Antoinette - After the painting by Madame Vigée Le Brun. From photo kindly lent by Duveen Bros., Old Bond Street 154
Portrait Bust of the Duke of Normandy, the second Dauphin, Sometimes called Louis XVII., who died in the Temple 163
Autograph Note of Louis XVI. recalling Necker, on the 16th of July, after the Fall of the Bastille 213
The Tuileries, from the Garden or West Side, in 1789 231
Facsimile of the First Page of the Address to the French People written by Louis XVI. before his Flight 260
Pétion 286
Barnave 289
xiiFacsimile of the First Page of the Letter written on the 3rd September, 1791, by Marie Antoinette to the Emperor, her Brother, proposing Armed Intervention 297
East Front of the Tuileries (the side Attacked by the Mob) in its last State before the Commune of 1871, after the Clearing away of the Streets and Houses in Front of it 314
An Early View of the Approach to the Tuileries from the Carrousel, showing the Three Courtyards 322
Contemporary Print of the Fighting in the Courtyard 327
Inscription on the Broken Bust of the Dauphin. A Relic of the Sack of the Palace 329
The Tower of the Temple at the Moment of the Royal Family’s Imprisonment 333
A Rough Miniature of the Princesse de Lamballe Preserved at the Carnavalet 337
Sanson’s Letter asking the Authorities what Steps he is to take for the Execution of the King 343
Autograph Demand of Louis XVI. for a Respite of Three Days 344
Report of the Commissioners that all is duly arranged for the Burial of Louis Capet after his Execution 346
First Page of Louis XVI.’s Will 348
Order of the Committee of Public Safety in Cambon’s Handwriting, directing the Dauphin to be separated from his Mother 356
Last Portrait of Marie Antoinette, by Kocharski Presumably sketched in the Temple, and now at Versailles 365
Gateway of the Law Courts through which the Queen went to her Death 380
First Page of Marie Antoinette’s Last Letter 395
Facsimile of the Death-warrant of Marie Antoinette 398
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