She was inured to habits of frugality, which reappeared in the personal tastes of her son.

In fact, she so far retained her old parsimonious habits, even amidst the splendours of the French Imperial Court, as to expose herself to the charge of avarice.

But there is a touching side to all this.

She seems ever to have felt that after the splendour there would come again the old days of adversity, and her instincts were in one sense correct.
She lived on to the advanced age of eighty-six, and died twenty-one years after the break-up of her son's empire--a striking proof of the vitality and tenacity of her powers.
A kindly Providence veiled the future from the young couple.

Troubles fell swiftly upon them both in private and in public life.