As dame d'honneur, Anne de Noailles was responsible for the behavior of Marie Antoinette and her ladies-in-waiting and given the task of instructing her in the etiquette of the French royal court and making sure that she behaved accordingly. Early on, this came to cause discord between her and Marie Antoinette, who resented de Noailles for restricting her life with reference to court etiquette. In Nancy, during the journey from the border to the meeting with the king and the dauphin in the Forest of Compiégne, de Noailles reproached Marie Antoinette for being too friendly with her relatives of the House of Lorraine by stating that, as dauphine, Marie Antoinette could not regard the king's subjects as her equals.