Henriette Campan served as First Lady-in-Waiting to Marie Antoinette and was one of the last people to see the queen before her imprisonment. Her memoirs, published in 1823, offer an unmatched firsthand account of daily life at Versailles, the character of Marie Antoinette, and the catastrophic events of the Revolution that destroyed the French monarchy.
Scholarly and personal in equal measure, the book is an essential primary source for the period and a gripping human narrative. Download this complete public-domain text as a free EPUB.