‘In rooms that were…’: see Benedetta Craveri, The Art of Conversation (New York 2004).
‘the Duchesse de Mazarin…’: Mme de Genlis, Mémoires (Paris 2004), p. 183.
‘Rousseau’s call…’: see Robert Forster and Orest Ranum (eds), Medicine and Society in France: Selection from Annales, Vol. 6 (Baltimore 1980).
‘The Archbishop shared…’: Duc de Lauzun-Biron, Mémoires (Paris), p. 117.
‘Adèle d’Osmond…’: Mémoires de la Comtesse de Boigne (Paris 1931), p. 43.
Chapter 2
‘By the 1770s…’: see Eva Jacobs et al., Women and Society in 18th-century France (London 1979); Mme la Comtesse de Miremont, Traité de l’éducation des femmes (Paris 1779); Royer Chartre, L’éducation en France du XVI au XVIII siècles (Paris 1976); Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Oeuvres Complètes, Vol. IV. (Paris 1959).
‘Like her mother…’: see Jean Gallois (ed.,) Musiques et Musiciens au Faubourg Saint-Germain (Paris 1996); Duc de Lauzun-Biron, Mémoires (Paris).
‘There was another…’: see Durand Echeverria, Mirage in the West: A History of the French Image of American Society to 1815 (Princeton 1957); Hector St John de Crèvecoeur, Letter from an American Farmer (Paris 1782).
‘Turgot, the King’s…’: see Thomas E. Crow, Painters and Public Life in 18th-century Paris (Newhaven 1985).
‘Informed that they lived…’: see Samuel Breck, Recollections 1771–1862 (Philadelphia 1877).
‘His superior officers…’: Vicomte de Noailles, Marins et soldats français en Amérique: 1778–1783 (Paris 1903), p. 169.
‘Masses and celebratory…’: see Jean Chalon (ed.), Mémoires de Mme de Campan: Première femme de chambre de Marie Antoinette (Paris 1988).
‘The court at Versailles…’: Jacques Levron, A la Cour de Versailles aux XVI–XVIII siècles (Paris 1965), p. 297.
‘Clothes, like meals…’: Philip Mansel, Dressed to Rule (New Haven 2005), p. 56.
‘botanise in a watered meadow…’: Arthur Young, Travels in France during 1787, 1788, 1789 (London 1905), p. 89.
‘For Lucie and her mother…’: see Aileen Ribiero, Dress in 18th-century Europe: 1715–1789 (New Haven 2002).
‘Smell, ever a…’: Alain Corbin, The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination (New York 1986), p. 74.
‘Despite the efforts…’: see Robert Forster and Orest Ranum (eds), Medicine and Society in France: Selection from Annales, Vol. 6 (Baltimore 1980); Alessa Johns (ed.), Dreadful Visitations: Confronting Natural Catastrophes in the Age of Enlightenment (London 1999); Roy Porter (ed.), ‘The Medical History of Water and Spas’, Medical History Supp. No. 10 (London 1990).
Chapter 3
‘With Monsignor Dillon…’: see Louis Audibert, Le Dernier Président des Etats Généraux de Languedoc (Bordeaux 1868); Bernard Plongeron, La Vie quotidienne du clergé Français au XVIIIième siècle (Paris 1974); Philippe Ariès et Georges Duby (eds), Histoire de la vie privée, Vol. 3 (Paris 1986).
‘“Monsignor,” he told…’: Nigel Aston, The End of an Elite: The French Bishops and the Coming of the Revolution 1786–1790 (Oxford 1992), p. 43.
‘The Duc de Chartres…’: René Héron de Villefosse, L’Anti-Versailles ou le Palais-Royal de Philippe Egalité (Paris 1974), p. 196.
‘The English, estranged…’: see J. M. Thompson, English Witnesses of the French Revolution (Oxford 1938); Constantia Maxwell, The English Traveller in France 1658–1815 (London 1932).
‘“We seem to want…”’: Josephine Grieder, Anglomania in France: Fact, Fiction and Political Discourse (Geneva 1985), p. 25.
‘Two brothers…’: Alistair Horne, Seven Ages of Paris: Portrait of a City (London 2002), p. 173.
‘For a while, Cagliostro…’: see Stanislas Jean de Boufflers, Vie (Lille 1860).
‘And then there were the exotic animals…’: see L. Robbins, Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots: Exotic Animals in 18th Century Paris (London 2002); Jean-Jacques Marquet de Vasselot, La Ménagerie de Versailles: Revue de l’Histoire de Versailles (Paris 1899).
‘It was, wrote Thomas Blaikie…’: Diary of a Scotch Gardener at the French Court at the End of the 18th Century (London 1931), p. 142.
‘Louis, Prince de Rohan…’ see Antonia Fraser, Marie Antoinette (London, 2001)
‘The Queen was now…’: see Léonard Autie, Recollections of Léonard, Hairdresser to Marie Antoinette (London 1912); Emile Langlade, Rose Bertin: The Creator of Fashion at the Court of Marie Antoinette (London 1933).
‘The Princesse d’Hénin…’: see Revue d’Histoire de Versailles et de Seine et Marne (Paris 1923), p. 83; Vicomtesse de Noailles, Vie de la Princesse de Poix (Paris 1855), p. 27.
Chapter 4
‘This was the Princesse de Beauvau…’: Stanislas Jean de Boufflers, Vie (Lille 1860), p. 216.
‘In portraits…’: Pierre Pluchon, Nègres et Juifs au XVIIIième siècle (Paris 1984), p. 135.
‘It was the Duc de Guines…’: Comte d’Hézecques, Page à la cour de Louis XVI (Paris 1987), p. xxx.
‘Most of the habitués…’: Duchesse d’Abrantès, Histoire des Salons de Paris, Vol. 1 (Brussels 1837) p. 46.
‘In 1786, the Neckers’…’: see Maria Fairweather, Madame de Staël (London 2005).
‘In 1784, Jefferson…’: see William Howard Adams, The Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson (New Haven 1997).
‘In the exalted…’: Stacy Schieff, A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France and the Birth of America (New York 2005), p. 230.
‘Everywhere, people were poor…’: see Olwen H. Hufton, The Poor of Eighteenth-Century France (Oxford 1974).
‘Among these aristocratic…’: Michel Poniatowski, Talleyrand et l’ancienne France: 1754–1789 (Paris 1988), p. 507.
‘Libelle literature…’: see Robert Darnton and Daniel Roche (eds), Revolution in Print: The Press in France 1775–1800 (Berkeley 1989).
‘In Charles IX…’: Simon Schama, Citizens (London 1989), p. 415.
‘“Here drops”…’: see Gouverneur Morris, A Diary of the French Revolution (London 1939).
‘Most of the Third…’: see Timothy Tackett, Par la Volonté du Peuple (Paris 1997).
Chapter 5
‘It was rumoured…’: J. Forneron, Histoire générale des émigrés pendant la révolution française (Paris 1884), p. 124; see also Simon Schama, Citizens (London 1989), p. 365.
‘At Versailles…’: see Lucien de Clully, La Tour du Pin (Paris 1909).
‘“The Queen’s entourage…”’: Jules Flammermont, Les Correspondances des agents diplomatiques étrangers en France avant la Révolution (Paris 1946), p. 247.
‘Even musicians were…’: Jean Chalon (ed.), Mémoires de Mme Campan (Paris 1988), p. 282.
‘Pamphlets and news-sheets…’: Robert Darnton and Daniel Roche, Revolution in Print: the Press in France 1775–1800 (Berkeley 1989), p. 82.
‘They would serve, said Brissot…’: John Brewer and Roy Porter (eds), Consumption and the World of Goods (London 1993), p. 412.
‘Like his father…’: Château de Vêves, Private papers.
‘The neat white gowns…’: Olwen H. Hufton. Women and the Limits of Citizenship in the French Revolution (Toronto 1992), p. 8.
‘After a first night…’: Antonia Fraser, Marie Antoinette (London 2001), p. 283.
‘Paris, as Gouverneur Morris…’: Gouverneur Morris, A Diary of the French Revolution (London 1939), p. 138.
‘In the first issue…’: Alison Ribiero, Dress in Eighteenth-Century Europe 1715–1789 (New Haven 2002) p. 53.
‘Before they finally…’: see Edna Hindie Lemay, La Vie quotidienne des députés aux Etats Généraux: 1789 (Paris 1987).
‘One of these was…’: see François Furet and Mona Ozouf, A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution (London 1989).
‘Horace Walpole, hearing…’: Duff Cooper, Talleyrand (London 1932), p. 57.
‘This obsession with…’: Harold T. Parker, The Cult of Antiquity and the French Revolution (Chicago 1937), p.
35; and see Alfred Copin, Talma et la Révolution Française (Paris 1887).
‘With them came…’: see Georges Snyders, Le Goût Musical en France au XVIIième et XVIIIième siècles (Paris 1968).
‘“It is time…”’: see Paul Carbonel, Histoire de Narbonne des Origines à l’époque contemporaine (Narbonne 1956).
Chapter 6
‘The first French…’: Dorette Berthoud, Le Général et la Romancière (Neuchâtel 1959), p. 150.
‘Mme de Staël herself loved…’: Lucie Achaud, Rosalie de Constant, sa famille et ses amis, Vol. 2 (Paris n.d.), p. 12.
‘But among the émigrés…’: Philippe Godet, Mme de Charrière et ses Amis, Vol. 1 (Geneva 1906), p. 400.
‘Soon after reaching…’: M. de Bouillé, Mémoires sur la révolution française (London 1797), p. 161.
‘“The army,” he warned…’: Lucien de Clully, La Tour du Pin (Paris 1909), p. 157.
‘In the Tuileries…’: see Comte de Ségur, Mémoires ou Souvenirs et Anecdotes, Vol. 3 (Paris 1824), p. 590.
‘In caricatures…’: [Anonymous pamphlet], La Ménagerie Nationale (Paris 1790).
‘Paris in the winter…’: J. G. Alger, ‘British Colony in Paris 1792–1793’, English Historical Review 13 (1898), p. 25. And see J. G. Alger, Englishmen of the Revolution (London 1889).
‘Burke’s view…’: see Jacques Godechot, Le Directoire vu de Londres: Annales historiques de la Révolution française (Paris 1950).
‘Though he attacked…’: Robert Forster, ‘The Survival of the Nobility during the French Revolution’, Past and Present 37 (July 1967), p. 186.
‘On the eve of…’: Michel Poniatowski, Talleyrand et les années occultées: 1789–1792 (Paris 1995), p. 292.
‘“The people,” he warned…’: Colin Jones, The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon (London 2002), p. 435.
‘On 2 April…’: Simon Schama, Citizens (London 1989), p. 464.
‘Among its early members…’: Lilian Crété, La Traité des nègres sous l’ancien régime (Paris 1989), p. 258.
‘But the Antilles…’: see Gabriel Debien, Les esclaves aux Antilles françaises, XVII–XVIIIième siècles (Gaudeloupe 1974).
‘As Montesquieu…’: Pierre Pluchon, Nègres et Juifs au XVIIIième siècle: Le racisme et le siècle des lumières (Paris 1984), p. 135.
‘Women, however…’: see Vera Lee, The Reign of Women in 18th Century France (Cambridge MA 1975); Richard Rand, Intimate Encounters: Love and Domesticity in 18th-Century France (Princeton 1997); Carla Hesse, The Other Enlightenment (Princeton 2001).
‘The city was quiet…’: see Henry-Paulin Panon Desbassayns, Voyage à Paris pendant la révolution: 1790–1792 (Paris 1985).
‘Mesdames Tantes…’: see Livre Journal de Madame Éloffe, marchande de modes, couturière, lingère ordinaire de la reine et des dames de sa Cour. Vols 1 and 2 (Paris 1885).
‘Before hearing of their capture…’: John Keane, Tom Paine: A Political Life (London 1995), p. 317.
‘“People call him…”’: Antonia Fraser, Marie Antoinette (London 2001), p. 326.
‘“To aggravate…”’: William Augustin Miles, Correspondence on the French Revolution: 1789–1817 (London 1819), p. 253.
Chapter 7
‘When doubts…’: Alphonse Aulard, Études et leçons sur la Révolution française, Vol. 2 (Paris 1914) p. 281.
‘Even so, Mme de Staël…’: Mme de Staël, Seize lettres inédites de Madame de Staël à Gouvernet, ed. Charles de Portairols (Paris 1913), 11 March 1791.
‘The word “émigré”…’: see Kirsty Carpenter and Philip Mansel (eds), The French Émigrés in Europe and the Struggle against Revolution (London 1999); Jean Vidalenc, Les Emigrés français, 1789–1825 (Caen 1963).
‘L’émigration élégante…’: see Vicomte de Broc, Dix ans d’une femme pendant l’émigration (Paris 1893).
‘“The Dutch,” he wrote…’: Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, Holland, letter of 31 January 1792. (Paris)
‘Robespierre had about him…’: see J. G. Millingen, Recollections of Republican France between 1790–1801 (London 1848).
‘Soon, men all over…’: Simon Schama, Citizens (London 1989), p. 508.
‘On 20 June, a mob…’: Antonia Fraser, Marie Antoinette (London 2001), p. 343.
‘Arthur immediately declared…’: see Théodore de Lameth, Notes et Souvenirs (Paris 1914).
‘As a friend observed…’: General Bertrand, Lettres à Fanny, ed. Suzanne de la Vaissière-Orfila (Paris 1978), p. 70.
‘“We cannot be calm…”’: see Robert and Isabelle Tombs, That Sweet Enemy: The French and the British from the Sun King to the Present (London 2006).
‘It was no longer…’: see Aileen Ribiero, Fashion in the French Revolution (London 1988).
‘Louis had been…’: see Comte d’Hézecques, Page à la cour de Louis XVI (Paris 1987).
‘An account of the trial…’: see John Moore, A Journal during a Residence in France from the Beginning of August to the Middle of December 1792 (Boston 1794).
‘An English visitor…’: Frédéric Masson, Le Département des Affaires Etrangères pendant la révolution: 1787–1804 (Paris 1877), p. 271.
‘Lucie was extremely reluctant…’: Archives Nationales, Paris, Series T 595/281 1–4.
Chapter 8
‘On 1 July…’: Archives Nationales, Paris, W/345.
‘Among his few possessions…’: Archives Nationales, Paris, F/17/1195.
‘In the national…’: Archives Nationales, Paris, T281.
‘With the murder…’: see F. W. Blagdon, Paris as It Was and as It Is: 1801–1802 (London 1803), p. 127; Thermomètre du Jour, 2 August 1793.
‘M. de la Tour du Pin…’: Lucien de Clully, La Tour du Pin (Paris 1909), p. 366.
‘On Marie Antoinette’s…’: Hector Fleischmann, Behind the Scenes in the Terror (London 1914), p. 65.
‘Every day…’: see C. A. Dauban, Les Prisons de Paris sous la Révolution (Paris 1870); Le Moniteur, 4 September 1793.
‘In Bordeaux, “as in Paris”…’: see Raymond Celeste, Les anciennes sociétés musicales (Bordeaux 1900); Camille Jullian, Histoire de Bordeaux (Bordeaux 1895); Alan Forrest, Society and Politics in Revolutionary Bordeaux (Oxford 1975); J. L. Barraud, Vieux Papiers Bordelais (Paris 1910).
‘Bordeaux would not experience…’: see Aurélien Lignereux, Gendarmes et policiers dans la France de Napoléon (Paris 2002); P. Bécamps, ‘Détenus et proscrits pendant la Révolution à Bordeaux’, Revue Historique de Bordeaux (1958); Anne de Mathau, Mémoires de Terreur: L’an 11 à Bordeaux (Bordeaux 2002).
‘Jeanne-Marie-Ignace-Thérésia…’: see Christian Gilles, Madame Tallien: La reine du Directoire (Biarritz 1999); Thérèse Charles-Vallin, Tallien: le mal aimé de la Révolution (Paris 1997); Comte de Paroy, Mémoires (Paris 1895).
‘Even Gouverneur…’: Gouverneur Morris, A Diary of the French Revolution (London 1989), p. 138.
‘He was to be replaced…’: see Pierre Gascar, L’Ombre de Robespierre (Paris 1979).
‘“Heads,” remarked…’: see Remy Bijaoni, Prisonniers et Prisons de la Terreur (Paris 1996); Jean-Paul Bertrand, La Vie quotidienne en France au temps de la Révolution (Paris 1983).
‘After Hébert…’: see Jean-Paul Bertrand, Camille et Lucile Desmoulins: Un couple dans la tourmente (Paris 1986).
‘Dillon, said his accusers…’: Archives Nationales, Paris, W/345.
‘“If,” he had written…’: Le Vieux Cordelier, 8 July 1793.
Chapter 9
‘Sturdy…’: see Melvin Maddocks, The Atlantic Crossing (Alexandria 1981).
‘By 1794…’: see Warren S. Tryon, A Mirror for Americans: Life and Manners in the US 1790–1870 (Chicago 1952); Durand Echeverria(ed.), Mirage in the West: A History of the French Image of American Society up to 1815 (Princeton 1957); Beatrice F. Hyslop, ‘American Press Reports of the French Revolution: 1789–1794’, New York Historical Society Quarterly (October 1958), p. 329.
‘Some o
f these…’: see J. G. Rosengarten, French Colonists and Exiles in the United States (Philadelphia 1907), p. 126. See also Echeverria, op. cit.; J. P. Brissot de Warville, New Travels in the United States of America: 1788 (Cambridge, MA 1964); Alexandre Capitaine, La Situation économique et sociale des États Unis à la fin du XVIIIième siècle d’après les voyageurs français (Paris 1926); Marquis de Chastellux, Travels in North America in the Years 1780, 1781, 1782 (New York 1963); Benjamin Franklin, Information to Those Who Would Remove to America (London 1784).
‘It is Dillon…’: Le Moniteur, 14 April 1794.
‘Not long before…’: Château de Vêves, Private papers. Letter of 29 frimaire.
‘At six o’clock…’: Independent Chronicle and Universe, 5 June 1794.
‘The frail…’: see Helen Maria Williams, Letters containing a Sketch of the Politics of France from 31 May 1793 to 28 July 1794 (Dublin 1795).
‘On the sandy…’: see Anne Grant, Memoirs of an American Lady (Albany 1876); Tom Lewis, The Hudson (Virginia 2005); Count Paolo Andreani, Along the Hudson and the Mohawk (Philadelphia 2006).
‘While the 1783…’: see Alan Taylor, The Divided Ground: Indians, Warriors, Settlers and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution (New York 2006).
‘It depicted Louis…’: The Albany Register, 14 August 1794.
‘if I have to stay…’: Echeverria, op. cit. p. 183.
‘To your care…’: Library of Congress, Washington, DC, Hamilton Papers.
‘as old as the world…’: Michel Poniatowski, Talleyrand aux États Unis: 1794–1796 (Paris 1967), p. 371.
‘Among the last…’: unpublished journal of Philippe de Noailles. Archives Nationales, Paris.
‘With 150 acres…’: see Ira Berlin, Generations of Capitivity (Cambridge, MA 2003); Simon Schama, Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution (London 2005); Thomas F. Gossett, Race: The History of an Idea in America (New York 1997).
‘Later, in his immensely…’: Duc de la Rochefoucault Liancourt, Travels through the United States of America, the Country of the Iriquois and Upper Canada in the years 1795, 1796 and 1797 (London 1799), p. 383.
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