In the same manner she gave up English, which I had taught her for some time, and in which she had made rapid progress.

Music was the accomplishment in which the Queen most delighted.
She did not play well on any instrument, but she had become able to read at sight like a first-rate professor.

She attained this degree of perfection in France, this branch of her education having been neglected at Vienna as much as the rest.

A few days after her arrival at Versailles, she was introduced to her singing-master, La Garde, author of the opera of "Egle." She made a distant appointment with him, needing, as she said, rest after the fatigues of the journey and the numerous fetes which had taken place at Versailles; but her motive was her desire to conceal how ignorant she was of the rudiments of music.

She asked M.
Campan whether his son, who was a good musician, could give her lessons secretly for three months.