The Queen was much agitated.

She said to me: "That man shall never again come within my doors." A few years before the Revolution of 1789 the Marechal de Biron died.

The Duc de Lauzun, heir to his name, aspired to the important post of colonel of the regiment of French guards.

The Queen, however, procured it for the Duc du Chaatelet.

The Duc de Biron espoused the cause of the Duc d'Orleans, and became one of the most violent enemies of Marie Antoinette.
It is with reluctance that I enter minutely on a defence of the Queen against two infamous accusations with which libellers have dared to swell their envenomed volumes.