The Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, Volume 5

By Campan, Jeanne Louise Henriette

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Title:	The Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, Volume 5
Author:	Campan, Jeanne Louise Henriette
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature & thought, Literature and history, Literature & philosophy
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The ever-memorable oath of the States General, taken at the Tennis Court of Versailles, was followed by the royal sitting of the 23d of June. In this seance the King declared that the Orders must vote separately, and threatened, if further obstacles were met with, to himself act for the good of the people. The Queen looked on M. Necker?s not accompanying the King as treachery or criminal cowardice: she said that he had converted a remedy into poison; that being in full popularity, his audacity, in openly disavowing the step taken by his sovereign, had emboldened the factious, and led away the whole Assembly; and that he was the more culpable inasmuch as he had the evening before given her his word to accompany the King. In vain did M. Necker endeavor to excuse himself by saying that his advice had not been followed.