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A FRIEND OF THE QUEEN 



(MARIE ANTOINETTE— COUNT FERSEN) 

 By PAUL GAULOT 



In One Volume, with Frontispiece, price 6s. 



The Times. — " It tells over again, with new and authentic details, the 

 romantic story of Count Fersen's devotion to Marie Antoinette, of his 

 share in the celebrated flight to Varennes, and in many other well-known 

 episodes of the unhappy queen's life." 



The World. — "The book is charmingly written, and every page of it 

 teems with interest, while it may be said to have a special value as being a 

 private view of the events, not only before and during the French Revolu- 

 tion, but also of contemporaneous occurrences in other parts of Europe 

 during those troublous times with which Count Fersen was connected." 



The Morning Post. — "It is not praising too much either M. Gaulot's 

 work or Mrs. Cashel Hoey's translation to say that no historical novel has 

 appeared of late years half so interesting as this book, which, moreover, 

 bears throughout the impress of truthfulness." 



The Court Journal. — "'A Friend of the Queen' is a most readable 

 volume ; it throws a flood of light upon one of the most pathetic incidents 

 of French history — the flight to Varennes. An air of romance has always 

 surrounded the ill-fated Marie Antoinette, and the loyal devotion of the 

 gallant young Swede deserves the recognition accorded to it in the present 

 work." 



MEMOIRS OF 

 THE PRINCE DE JOINVILLE 



(Translated from the French by Lady MARY LOYD) 



In One Volume, with Seventy- Eight Illustrations by the Author, price 6s. 



The Saturday Review. — "The book, though very unpretentiously 

 written, is full of pleasant matter, and leaves us in much better charity 

 with the Prince than, to tell the truth, we have ever been with any other 

 member of his family who has written a book." 



The Athenaeum. — "This is a book of remarkable interest. The re- 

 collections of a man who has dined in childhood with Louis XVIII. at the 

 Tuileries ; who has had the same tutor as Metternich, and who remembers 

 a coronation at Rheims, who (as the son of the reigning king and as 

 captain of a frigate) was long afterwards charged with the duty of bringing 

 to France the ashes of Napoleon Bonaparte ; and who has lived to see the 

 exile of his father, the Second Republic, the Second Empire, and the 

 twenty-fourth year of the Third Republic, cannot but be striking." 



The Speaker. — " This is nothing short of a capital book : a fine, manly, 

 sailorlike, humorous book. For a book that carries the reader right along, 

 gives him every now and again a hearty, healthy laugh over a good short 

 story briskly told, and at the same time maintains a political and dynastic 

 interest it is hard to beat." 



The St. James's Gazette. — " One of the most entertaining volumes of 

 memoirs that have appeared within recent years." 



London : WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 Bedford Street, W.C. 



