Relationship With The Dauphin, Louis-Charles
Pauline de Tourzel was adored by the dauphin Louis-Charles, who found in her a more playful alternative to his Governess, her mother, the Marquise de Tourzel, whom he was to nicknamed Madame Severe, the two were said to play endless games during the families house arrest in the Tuileries. Pauline was crucial in persuading the young daupin to be dressed in girls clothes for the Royal Families flight to Varennes, convincing the shy young boy that it was all part of a wonderful game of soldiers. During the royal families refuge with the deputies of the National Assembly he cried constantly worrying about the fate of his beloved Pauline following the massacre at the Tuileries, only ceasing when they were reunited at the convent.
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