Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Introductory remarks; 2. Voltaire crowned; 3. Marie Antoinette; 4. Ambassadors of Tippoo Saib; 5. Madame Tussaud quits the Princess Elizabeth; 6. Destruction of the busts; 7. Duke of Orleans; 8. The emperor Joseph the Second; 9. The king's return to Paris; 10. Proceedings of the Jacobins; 11. Anacharsis Cloots; 12. General Rochambeau; 13. Immense mob on the 20th June, 1792; 14. Various schemes; 15. Robespierre; 16. Massacre of priests; 17. Accusation of Robespierre; 18. Preparations for Louis's trial; 19. The abbé Edgeworth; 20. Armed commotion; 21. Duke of York defeated; 22. Arraignment of the twenty-two Girondins; 23. Goddess of Reason; 24. Malesherbes' trial; 25. Duke of York's humanity; 26. Robespierre's likeness; 27. Kotzebue; 28. Renewed attacks of the factions; 29. Formation of a directory; 30. Reception of Buonaparte; 31. Napoleon's operations.

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Madame Tussaud's memoirs, first published in 1838, offer evocative eyewitness insights into the events and personalities of the French Revolution.