Before being reproved and chastened we see her in history, as vindictive, unrelenting to pity, eager for retaliation.

She would be Clotilde before her repentance--the Queen, before she became a saint.
"But is it really she?
The name was given her because a statue of the same period and very like this, which was formerly at Notre Dame de Corbeil, was dubbed with this name.

It was, however, subsequently admitted that it represented the Queen of Sheba.

Are we then in the presence of that sovereign?
And why, if her name is not in the Book of Life, has she a glory?
"It is highly probable that she is neither the wife of Clovis, nor Solomon's friend--this strange princess who stands before us, at once so earthly and yet more spectral than her sisters; for time has marred her features, injured her skin, dotted her chin with hail-specks, vulgarized her mouth, injured her nose, making it look like the ace of clubs, and put the stamp of death on that living countenance.
"As to the third, she is tall and slender, a fragile spindle, a slim, sylph-like creature, suggesting a taper with the lower portion patterned, embossed, brocaded in the wax itself; she stands magnificently arrayed in a stiff-pleated robe channelled lengthwise, like a stick of celery.

The bodice is richly trimmed and stitched; below her waist hangs a cord with loose jewelled knots; on her head is a crown.