The Flight of Marie Antoinette from the French of G. Lenotre (Classic Reprint)

The name and mould of a hero of romance, regular features, a sensitive mouth, an expression half tender and half bold, a slender figure, and the immense advantage of belonging to that Scandinavian race whose prestige was so irresistible such, with his eighteen years, was the equipment with which in December, 1773, the Comte de Fersen made his first appearance in Parisian society. For three years he had been travelling about Europe under the guidance of a tutor, paying successive visits of some length to Brunswick, where he had studied the profession of arms ;to Turin, which excelled in the teaching of philosophy ;and to Strasbourg, which boasted of famous schools of medicine, gunnery, and dancing. When a foreigner, at the close of his student days, came to France to complete his education and acquire the manners of the great world, it was his bounden duty to submit to three ordeals, which for a young man of good breeding at that time took the place, to a certain extent, of our trivial and meaningless Bachelors Degree. His first care was to be presented to the King smistress, at that time Mme. du Barry, who received the young Swede very amiably; next, he went to Femey to pay his respects to M. de Voltaire, who, dressed in a ragged scarlet jacket and woollen stockings drawn up over his Jean Axel de Fersen was bom on the 4th Sept. 1755. His father was Field Marshal Fr6d6ric Axel de Fersen, his mother was the Comtess Hedvig Belagardie. Archives of the War Office. See Lt Comte de Fersen etla Gourde France. Extract from the papers of the Grand Marshal Count Jean Axel de Fersen, published by his greatnephew the Baron R. M. de Klinckowstrom.
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