As they were masked, if they had but known how to keep silence, the event would never have been known; but to ride in a fiacre is so unusual an adventure for a queen that she had hardly entered the Opera-house when she could not help saying to some persons whom she met there: "That I should be in a fiacre! Is it not droll ?" From that moment all Paris was informed of the adventure of the fiacre.

It was said that everything connected with it was mysterious; that the Queen had kept an assignation in a private house with the Duc de Coigny.

He was indeed very well received at Court, but equally so by the King and Queen.
These accusations of gallantry once set afloat, there were no longer any bounds to the calumnies circulated at Paris.

If, during the chase or at cards, the Queen spoke to Lord Edward Dillon, De Lambertye, or others, they were so many favoured lovers.

The people of Paris did not know that none of those young persons were admitted into the Queen's private circle of friends; the Queen went about Paris in disguise, and had made use of a fiacre; and a single instance of levity gives room for the suspicion of others.
Conscious of innocence, and well knowing that all about her must do justice to her private life, the Queen spoke of these reports with contempt, contenting herself with the supposition that some folly in the young men mentioned had given rise to them.