But, to their dismay, some of the early festivities in the time of Marie Leczinska proved to have been shared by one or two noble maidens.

The discovery was of little importance, since Marie Antoinette had shown that she was not afraid of making precedents.

But still it in some degree silenced the grumblers, and for the rest of the reign no one contested the queen's right to decide who should, and who should not, be admitted to her society..