2 MARCH 1907, Page 16

AXEL VON FERSEN. [To TRR EDITOR OF THE . 15PRCTATOR.] Sric,—I

have just read in the Spectator of November 17th, 1906, your review of a translation of M. Lenotre's book, " The Flight of Marie Antoinette," and as a great-grandnephew of Axel von Fersen you will perhaps allow me to take this opportunity of expressing my appreciation of the sympathy which your reviewer has so frequently shown for the memory of my ancestor. I have not yet read M. Lenotre's book, but gather that the capture of Louis XVL is attributed to the behaviour of the Dragoons under M. d'Andoins. Was it not rather the fact that the berline had been borrowed from Baroness Korff, and that her arms on the carriage included a fleur-de-lys, which first caused suspicion, and finally led to the capture at