...now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Yersallies ; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...she just began to move in, — glittering like the morning-star, full of life and splendor and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what an heart must I...

...of the Reflections on the Revolution in France that included a description of Marie Antoinette—"I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in,—glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh! what a revolution!...

...of the last time that he saw Marie Antoinette, from his 1790 Reflections on the Revolution in France ("I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she moved in, — glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy") as a staple...