Assembly of Notables

She had been married but little more than a year when the first shadow of coming events dimmed the luster of her new existence.

In a speech pronounced at the Assembly of Notables in April 1787, M. de Colonne impugned the accuracy of the famous compte rendu.

M. Necker indignantly demanded from the king the permission to hold a public debate on the subject in the presence of the Assembly before which he had been accused.

Louis XVI refused, and M. Necker then immediately published a memoir of self-justification.