Authors: Kathryn Lasky
Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to use the following:
Cover art by Mélanie Delon.
Filigree on front and back cover by albumkoretsky/Shutterstock.
Crown appearing on spine and throughout interiors, ibid.
Maria Antonia, Culver Pictures.
Marie Antoinette, SuperStock.
Louis XVI, ibid.
Marie Antoinette and her children, Culver Pictures.
Maria Theresa, North Wind Picture Archives.
Madame du Barry, SuperStock.
The Palace of Versailles and grounds, North Wind Picture Archives.
Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles, SuperStock.
Cartoon of the royal family, Library of Congress.
Storming of the Bastille, North Wind Picture Archives.
Marie Antoinette condemned by the Revolutionary Tribunal, Library of Congress.
While the Royal Diaries are based on real royal figures and actual historical events, some situations and people in this book are fictional, created by the author.
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Table of Contents
January 1, 1769
January 3, 1769
January 4, 1769
January 5, 1769
January 9, 1769
January 11, 1769
January 13, 1769
January 14, 1769
January 19, 1769
January 20, 1769
January 23, 1769
January 30, 1769
February 1, 1769
February 4, 1769
February 5, 1769
February 6, 1769
February 8, 1769
February 9, 1769
February 10, 1769
February 11, 1769
February 12, 1769
February 14, 1769
February 18, 1769
February 27, 1769
March 4, 1769
March 5, 1769
March 6, 1769
March 7, 1769
March 10, 1769
March 11, 1769
April 5, 1769
April 6, 1769
April 17, 1769
April 25, 1769
April 27, 1769
April 29, 1769
May 5, 1769
May 6, 1769
May 7, 1769
May 10, 1769
May 11, 1769
May 14, 1769
May 19, 1769
May 20, 1769
May 23, 1769
May 27, 1769
May 28, 1769
May 29, 1769
June 2, 1769
June 4, 1769
June 5, 1769
June 7, 1769
June 13, 1769
June 14, 1769
June 15, 1769
July 5, 1769
July 7, 1769
July 12, 1769
July 15, 1769
July 18, 1769
July 19, 1769
July 24, 1769
July 27, 1769
July 28, 1769
August 1, 1769
August 2, 1769
August 3, 1769
August 4, 1769
August 27, 1769
August 30, 1769
September 3, 1769
September 9, 1769
September 10, 1769
September 11, 1769
October 11, 1769
October 14, 1769
October 17, 1769
October 23, 1769
October 24, 1769
October 29, 1769
November 3, 1769
November 8, 1769
November 9, 1769
November 10, 1769
November 13, 1769
November 17, 1769
November 20, 1769
November 25, 1769
November 27, 1769
November 30, 1769
December 8, 1769
December 10, 1769
December 12, 1769
December 13, 1769
December 14, 1769
December 17, 1769
December 20, 1769
December 21, 1769
December 26, 1769
January 1, 1770
January 7, 1770
January 8, 1770
January 12, 1770
January 14, 1770
January 19, 1770
January 20, 1770
January 23, 1770
January 25, 1770
February 7, 1770
February 10, 1770
February 11, 1770
February 20, 1770
February 23, 1770
February 24, 1770
March 1, 1770
March 2, 1770
March 4, 1770
March 8, 1770
March 12, 1770
March 17, 1770
March 18, 1770
March 20, 1770
March 21, 1770
March 22, 1770
March 25, 1770
March 26, 1770
March 31, 1770
April 1, 1770
April 2, 1770
April 3, 1770
April 6, 1770
April 10, 1770
April 12, 1770
April 13, 1770
April 14, 1770
April 15, 1770
April 16, 1770
April 17, 1770
April 18, 1770
April 19, 1770
April 22, 1770
April 25, 1770
April 28, 1770
April 29, 1770
May 1, 1770
May 2, 1770
May 3, 1770
May 4, 1770
May 5, 1770
May 6, 1770
May 7, 1770
Later: Strasbourg
May 9, 1770
May 11, 1770
May 14, 1770
May 15, 1770
May 17, 1770
May 18, 1770
May 22, 1770
May 24, 1770
May 26, 1770
June 1, 1770
June 3, 1770
June 5, 1770
June 6, 1770
June 8, 1770
June 18, 1770
June 20, 1770
June 21, 1770
June 22, 1770
June 25, 1770
June 26, 1770
July 2, 1770
July 5, 1770
July 7, 1770
July 11, 1770
July 12, 1770
July 18, 1770
July 20, 1770
July 23, 1770
July 24, 1770
August 1, 1770
August 5, 1770