A few days afterwards, the most wicked libel that appeared during the earlier years of her reign was circulated in Paris.

The blackest colours were employed to paint an enjoyment so harmless that there is scarcely a young woman living in the country who has not endeavoured to procure it for herself.
The verses which appeared on this occasion were entitled "Sunrise." The Duc d'Orleans, then Duc de Chartres, was among those who accompanied the young Queen in her nocturnal ramble: he appeared very attentive to her at this epoch; but it was the only moment of his life in which there was any advance towards intimacy between the Queen and himself.

The King disliked the character of the Duc de Chartres, and the Queen always excluded him from her private society.

It is therefore without the slightest foundation that some writers have attributed to feelings of jealousy or wounded self-love the hatred which he displayed towards the Queen during the latter years of their existence.
It was on this first journey to Marly that Boehmer, the jeweller, appeared at Court,--a man whose stupidity and avarice afterwards fatally affected the happiness and reputation of Marie Antoinette.

This person had, at great expense, collected six pear-formed diamonds of a prodigious size; they were perfectly matched and of the finest water.