. The New England magazine. MARIE ANTOINETTE. and their confiscated estates would berestored upon conditions, easy enoughfor homesick exiles to fulfil,—-Talleyrands outcry, after a sojournin the United States, voicing the sen-timents of many: I shall die if I re-main another year under the Stars andStripes.* Descendants of Bartholomew La-porte and Charles Honet, who did not * Blenncrhassettsp. 262. Life of Madame De Stael, vol. II, 66 MARIE ANTOINETTE LOUIS XVI. go back to France, own the most of thesite of the old colony to-day, a localitywhich did not soon lose its attractionsfor Fr
. The New England magazine. MARIE ANTOINETTE. and their confiscated estates would berestored upon conditions, easy enoughfor homesick exiles to fulfil,—-Talleyrands outcry, after a sojournin the United States, voicing the sen-timents of many: I shall die if I re-main another year under the Stars andStripes.* Descendants of Bartholomew La-porte and Charles Honet, who did not * Blenncrhassettsp. 262. Life of Madame De Stael, vol. II, 66 MARIE ANTOINETTE LOUIS XVI. go back to France, own the most of thesite of the old colony to-day, a localitywhich did not soon lose its attractionsfor Frenchmen, many being drawn tosettle there and in the vicinity longafter the disastrous scheme of theAsylum Land Company had beenabandoned. The career of the colonywas so brief, the results so futile, theintelligence of its neighbors so unen-lightened concerning its affairs,—thefact that it has nearly disappearedfrom memory and tradition needs noother explanation. The fact that atthe time of the founding of Asylumthe revolutionists of France had astrong constituency in the UnitedStates, and notably at Philadelphia,explains the secrecy with which theinner affairs of the colony were con-ducted. There were those in thecountry who rejoiced at the executionof Louis XVI, and Marie Antoinettemight not have been out of peril hadshe reached the Queens House in thewoods. It must have been in the summer of1793 that the Queens House, hiddenin the forest some eight
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