I have seen the Queen shed bitter tears at the recollection of the errors she committed at this period, when subsequently, a short time before her death, the Archbishop had the audacity to say, in a speech which was printed, that the sole object of one part of his operations, during his administration, was the salutary crisis which the Revolution had produced.
The benevolence and generosity shown by the King and Queen during the severe winter of 1788, when the Seine was frozen over and the cold was more intense than it had been for eighty years, procured them some fleeting popularity.

The gratitude of the Parisians for the succour their Majesties poured forth was lively if not lasting.

The snow was so abundant that since that period there has never been seen such a prodigious quantity in France.

In different parts of Paris pyramids and obelisks of snow were erected with inscriptions expressive of the gratitude of the people.

The pyramid in the Rue d'Angiviller was supported on a base six feet high by twelve broad; it rose to the height of fifteen feet, and was terminated by a globe.