la domesticité, * dependence

Page 91. 1. 9. de démêler les ossements, i.e. with identifying

the remains of Louis XVI after the Révolution. Chateaubriand was présent at their disinterment.

1. 24. à la Conciergerie. In the intérim between the exécution of Louis XVI in January, 1793, and her own death in October of the same year, Marie Antoinette was confined in the prison of the Conciergerie. Hère neglect was added to outrage, and she was so far deprived of proper clothing that she was known as the Magpie from the patched appearance of her dress.