The Comte D'Artois, a youthful prince, chivalrous in etiquette, had much influence with her.

He relied greatly on the noblesse; made frequent references to his sword.

He laughed at the crises: he disdained this war of words, caballed against ministers, and treated passing events with levity.

The queen, intoxicated with the adulation of those around her, urged the king to recall the next day what he had conceded on the previous evening.

Her hand was felt in all the transactions of the government: her apartments were the focus of a perpetual conspiracy against the government; the nation detected it, and ultimately detested her.
Her name became for the people the phantom of all counter-revolution.