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Title: The vicissitudes of a lady-in-waiting 1735-1821
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Welvert, Eugène, b. 1857 O'Neill, Lilian
Subjects: Narbonne-Lara, Françoise de Chalus, duchesse de, 1734-1821 France -- Court and courtiers
Publisher: London : John Lane New York, John Lane company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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l torture she had endured,had exhausted Madame Victoires failing strength. AtCorfu her condition had been so serious that she hadreceived the last sacraments, and a few days after herarrival in Trieste it became evident that there was nolonger room for hope. After a long and painful agony,she died peacefully on 7th June, at the age of seventy-six years. Two emigres and two French merchantsliving in Trieste, bore her coffin to the Cathedral whereshe was buried. From this moment, Madame Adelaide began to sink.Although, by accepting his proposal, she would havebeen less exposed to falling into the hands of the French,she refused the shelter which the Emperor offered herat Laibach, at Fiume in Illyria, and at Agram in Croatia.From her early childhood, she had lived in closest unionwith Madame Victoire, and the death of the Princessbroke all the ties that bound her sister to life. She wasbroken by the effort she had made ever since theirdeparture from Caserte to sustain her sisters failing
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DEATH OF MESDAMES DE FRANCE 209 courage and to bear up stoutly against the misfortunesthat overwhelmed them. The reaction was too great,and she was henceforward nothing more than a body-without a soul. This made the Duchess de Narbonnefeel more cruelly than ever the blows that had been dealther by the Revolution. More than ever before, shebemoaned the absence of her children, and above allthat of her son Louis, Madame Adelaides beloved god-child. He alone, with his lively wit, might have beenable to make the Princess take some interest in life.She wrote to her sons ; they hastened from Germanywhere they were both residing separately, they arrivedin time to see Madame Adelaide on her deathbed, and toassist at her last moments. Several times, she askedfor her lady-in-waiting, but the hopeless condition ofthe aged Princess had prostrated the Duchess de Narbonne.Her daughter-in-law had to undertake for her the painfulduty of closing Madame Adelaides eyes, as she had donebefore when Madame

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