a detailed story to back it up, that Britain's national anthem, "God Save the Queen", was in fact written by Lully and sung by a French girls' school to greet Louis XIV. The French author of Souvenirs further states that the tune was later plagiarized by Handel and sold to the British crown as their anthem. If it is true, as some have claimed, that the story about the sale of the anthem is actually from a much later tabloid, then this anachronism is a reason why the author of Souvenirs is sometimes placed in the company of forgers, alongside the authors of such works as the Historia Augusta, De Situ Britanniae, and Annio of Viterbo. If, on the other hand, the French tabloids of the 1850s published Madame de Créquy's story based on her memoirs, it's possible she believed the story to be true, or that the story is true. References Attribution External links Facsimiles furnished by Gallica Bibliothèque numérique in France Souvenirs de la Marquise de Créquy (Original text, in French) Brief selections, translated into English 1714 births 1803 deaths 18th-century French writers Créquy family Literary forgeries French women memoirists 18th-century French women writers 18th-century French memoirists French letter writers 18th-century letter writers French salon-holders French marchionesses