Wie liefen ihre Tage als Königin ab? (Bericht eines Zeitgenossen): "Her days are regulated and filled so that, even though she spends time alone, she is always short of time. She spends her morning praying and reading moral tales, then she visits the King, then comes a little amusement. That is usually painting ... The toilette takes place at twelve-thirty, then she goes to mass and has dinner. I have sometimes seen as many as a dozen ladies there. Not one escapes her attention. She speaks to everyone, and not about those general subjects everybody knows, but about personal things because they please the person so addressed. Once her dinner is over, I follow her into the study. There another climate reigns: it is no longer the Queen I see, but a private person. There, embroideries of all kinds are to be found, and also assorted crafts, and while she works she likes to play some of her instruments - a guitar, a violin, a harpsichord - and when she makes a mistake she mocks herself with gaiety, sweetness and simplicity ... She send me away to my dinner around three, and then begins her reading time; she usually reads history books ... in their original language: French, Polish, Italian or German, for she knows them all ... The Court [in fact, a tiny part of it] gathers in her apartments around six to play cavagnole; she eats supper ... then goes to visit Madame de duchesse de Luynes [her best friend] around eleven. There are only five or six persons, at the most, who have the honor of being allowed to join her, and at twelve-thirty she retires. The conversations there are free of all gossip, the intrigues of the Court are never mentioned, and politics still less: this would seem to make for dullness, and yet the talk hardly ever ceases and is ordinarily very cheerful. The Queen not only allows but likes people to argue with her. She hates flattery, and when arguing wants reasons ... That same princess, so good, so simple, so kind, so amiable, holds her rank with a dignity that commands respect and which would actually frighten one if she did not condescend to be reassuring. From one room to the next, she becomes the Queen again ... She in no way participates in politics ... Her piety is of a severity all the more necessary because of the century we live in." (in: Olivier Bernier: Louis the beloved – The Life of Louis XV, id., pp. 85-86).