Her aspirations were lofty; she loved everything sublime; often while I was reading she would interrupt me to exclaim, "That is beautiful! that is noble!" There was but one brilliant action that she could perform,--to quit a palace for a cell, and rich garments for a stuff gown.

She achieved it! I saw Madame Louise two or three times more at the grating.

I was informed of her death by Louis XVI.

"My Aunt Louise," said he to me, "your old mistress, is just dead at St.Denis.

I have this moment received intelligence of it.