The Princesse de Lamballe: A Biography

It is remarkable that the faithful Princesse, whose story, with its strange compound of frivolity and devotion, amiability and pique, is one of the most characteristic and eventually one of the most moving in the whole tragedy of the Terror, has hitherto met with such scant attention at the hands of the biographers.

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"The whole tragedy is interesting in this its latest reconstruction, and the figure of the Princesse de Lamballe is none the less fascinating and pathetic because the author, instead of throwing about her the usual romantic veil through which she is seen as the incarnation of all the angelic virtues, depicts her as a woman with many harmless foibles and frailties, whose brain powers were not above the average, but whose heart was true, and who was faithful even unto the death of a martyr."
— Westminster Gazette.