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Book Sources: Marie Antoinette

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Correspondance de la reine avec d'illustres personnages by Marie Antoinette
Call Number: Online - free - Internet Archive
Correspondance inédite de Marie Antoinette by Marie Antoinette
Call Number: Online - free - Open Library
Open Library
A Lady in Waiting by Charles Woodcock-Savage
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Being Extracts from the Diary of Julie de Chesnil, sometimes Lady in Waiting to her Majesty, Queen Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette, Joseph II, und Leopold II by Marie Antoinette
Call Number: Online - free - Open Library
Memoirs of Marie Antoinette by Madame Campan
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette by Madame Campan
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Queen of France, with sketches and anecdotes of her private life, by Madame Campan, first lady-in-waiting to the queen

HathiTrust Digital Library
Recollections of Léonard, hairdresser to Queen Marie-Antoinette by Léonard Autié
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
tr. from the French by E. Jules Méras
HathiTrust Digital Library
Secret Memoirs of Princess Lamballe by Marie Thèrèse Louis Lamballe
Call Number: DC137.1.L219 S4
Being her Journals, Letters and Conversations during her Confidential Relations with Marie Antoinette
Edited and annotated by Catherine Hyde, Marquise de Gouvion Broglie Scolari...with a special introduction by Oliver H. G. Leigh.
Also online free at HathiTrust Digital Library
Secrets of Marie Antoinette by Marie Antoinette
Call Number: DC137.1 .M37 1985
ISBN: 0385191561
"Letters between Marie Antoinette and her mother, the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, document life at the French court and Marie's personal concerns"

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