One cannot deny the love of the Princess de Lamballe for her doomed Queen. The Princess had emigrated to England and was safe from the horrors of the revolution but returned to Paris to be with Antoinette during her final days. The Princess was rewarded by the mobs with a gruesome, cruel death by decapitation and mutilation.

The devoted Princess returned with a sweet, charming and sensitive gift for Antoinette that she was allowed to keep during her stay in the Tuileries then the Temple and later in the Conciergerie. It was tiny pug dog that Her Majesty named Odin (this was the name of Axel Fersen's dog), and it stayed with her to the very end and was a great comfort to her.

Such love and devotion are hard to comprehend. They were embodied in Marie de Lamballe.

("Marie Antoinette" page 307 Joan Haslip)