CHAPTER IX.
The Comte de Provence intrigues against the Queen .-- The King gives her the Little Trianon,--She lays out an English Garden .-- Maria Teresa cautions her against Expense .-- The King and Queen abolish some of the Old Forms .-- The Queen endeavors to establish Friendships with some of her Younger Ladies .-- They abuse her Favor .-- Her Eagerness for Amusement .-- Louis enters into her Views .-- Etiquette is abridged .-- Private Parties at Choisy .-- Supper Parties .-- Opposition of the Princesses .-- Some of the Courtiers are dissatisfied at the Relaxation of Etiquette .-- Marie Antoinette is accused of Austrian Preferences.
Her accession to the throne, however, had not entirely delivered Marie Antoinette from intrigues.

It had only changed their direction and object, and also the persona of the intriguers.

Her chief enemy now was the prince who ought to have been her best friend, the next brother of her husband, the Comte de Provence.

Among the papers of Louis XV.

the king had found proofs, in letters from both count and countess, that they had both been actively employed in trying to make mischief, and to poison the mind of their grandfather against the dauphiness.