Excerpt from The Guardian of Marie Antoinette, Vol. 2: Letters From the Comte De Mercy Argenteau, Austrian Ambassador to the Court of Versailles, to Marie Therese, Empress of Austria, 1770-1780 But all is to be changed now that the Bien-oz'me' is dead. Bread is already lowered in price; largesse adroitly distributed; and the chief commission-taker from the farmers of monopolies is already at Rueil, expecting to be ordered still further away from a Virtuous King and Queen who loathe the very surname she bears. 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.