Louis XVI, King of France

They first spent some time in Paris, where a highlight of their stay was a sight of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette at the Palace of Versailles.

FB bade farewell to her husband , as he left to ride out with the French king 's army against Napoleon , who was almost at the gates of Paris.

In 1789 and 1790, still in correspondence with Cartwright and also in letters to Thomas Brand Hollis , she discussed the issues involved in the Regency in Britain and the agreement between Louis XVI and...

Despite her obvious topical political agenda, CO does not confuse her picture of Napoleon and his operations by any likeness to Hitler. She opens her history, like the biographer she was, with the guillotining of...

Selima is a writing heroine: her poems are interspersed in the text, since as she says, As I grow sick or unhappy, I grow poetical. By midway in the last volume she is...

In 1935 US published her single Russian translation—of Under the Bolshevik Uniform by Vladimir A. Lazarevskii , and the first two of her many translations from Italian, of Alfredo Segré 's Abram Lewis, Agent (...

HMW published her translation entitled The Political and Confidential Correspondence of Lewis the Sixteenth (correspondence which later turned out to be spurious).

AY published Reflections on the Death of Louis XVI.

Without going back on her revolutionary principles, she urges that the refugees now streaming out of France, who include so many women and children, should be offered amnesty—no fatted calf, no return of their property...

HMW included in the earlier volume her correspondence with Stone while he was with the French revolutionary army fighting against the European monarchical powers. The second contains letters written after the execution of Louis XVI

This pamphlet and Jebb's follow-up to it are both witty and down-to-earth. William Bull here tells his brother you know they talk of a war . . . of a war without fresh taxes; but...

The month after Louis XVI was guillotined, AS expressed her outrage at the developing Terror in France with an impassioned letter printed in the Gentleman's Magazine, urging her friend Helen Maria Williams to come home.

She smuggled the duc d'Orléans to his house by giving her name instead of his to those who challenged them. She went home on foot, then, hearing that many thought the duc would lead a...

Habitués of her salon included Lafayette , Condorcet , Narbonne , Talleyrand , and Thomas Jefferson . In the following months she conspired with others to attempt the escape from revolutionary hands of aristocratic...

She was, she wrote later, ignorant enough to flatter myself, that I was most materially serving my country, by making these proposals. She found, however, that the ministers were confident they knew better; the...