Excerpt from The Guardian of Marie Antoinette, Vol. 1: Letters From the Comte De Mercy-Argenteau, Austrian Ambassador to the Court of Versailles, to Marie Therese, Empress of Austria, 1770-1780 Another point is the Stewart descent of Louis; and as the intermarriages between the Bourbons and Stewarts are always of interest, I have traced the descent of Louis XVI., by the help of Mr. Charles Stewart, Colonel Duncan Stewart, and Mr. J. K. Stewart of the Stewart Society, Edinburgh. An account of the double line of Stewart blood in Louis XVI. Will be found in Appendix II. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.