In 1791 a new, anonymously edited selection of letters appeared under the title "Confessions of Princess Elisabeth Charlotte of Orléans". "The good, honest, German woman –without all the pampered and creeping court sensibilities, without all the crookedness and ambiguity of the heart–" was portrayed as the representative of "the old German, honest times of earlier centuries", to which the German courts had to return when a revolution should be prevented in Germany. The Duchess of Orléans thus became a figure of considerable cultural patriotic importance.