Louis XVI, King of France

On 17 April 1790 AML went to Mary Champion de Crespigny 's private theatre and saw a performance of Mariana Starke 's tragedy The British Orphans. She was at the theatre (a public one...

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...

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.

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...

She was born into the wealthy and powerful bourgeoisie and was just eight years old when Louis XVI succeeded to the French throne. Her parents were both Swiss, but had settled in France. Owing to...

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...

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 (...

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...

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

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

AY published Reflections on the Death of Louis XVI.