Excerpt from The Last Days of Marie Antoinette These narratives, published for the most part in the form Of short pamphlets Of a few pages, shared the fate of all pamphlets: they disappeared. Indeed, I think as a matter of fact they were not looked for very zealously, for they have been so often quoted that everyone thinks he knows them. All the historians who have described the Temple prison and told the story of the imprisonment Of the royal family have had these for their only sources Of information and for such a long time now every writer has been touching them up and colouring them, and making dramas out Of them, and arranging them to the best advantage for the support of his own particular theory, that those who take the pains to consult the ungarbled text of the original copies find it absolutely unrecognisable. 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.