Notes on Marie Antoinette for the modern lady, the early 19th century lady, that is.
"How far this ill fated queen was led to transgress the bounds of decorum, we have no materials on which we can rely, that enable us to judge. The fabrication of the many gross calumnies, published against her character, by the most depraved of the human species, bear internal evidence of the vileness and atrocity of their authors, whose detestable minds are capable of.
The most diabolical suggestions, and who are therefore, not entitled to the smallest degree of credibility. In the relaxed morals of the court of France, and the feminine degeneracy and dissipation of the whole nation, we have, probably, the true causes of all the miseries with which that devoted country has been overwhelmed"
American lady's preceptor; a compilation of observations, essays, and political effusions. 1811. Baltimore: Coale.
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