CHAPTER XVII.
The allied powers named Louis XVIII., the brother of Louis XVI., for the vacant throne, who promised the people to reign under a constitutional government.
The man who had deserted his brother in his extremity, a man who represented nothing--not loyalty to the past, nor sympathy with a single aspiration of the present--was king.

As he passed under triumphal arches on the way to the Tuileries, there was sitting beside him a sad, pale-faced woman; this was the Duchesse d'Angouleme, the daughter of Louis XVI., the little girl who was prisoner in the Temple twenty years before.

What must she have felt and thought as she passed the very spot where had stood the scaffold in 1793! Almost the first act of Louis XVIII.

was the removal of the mutilated remains of the king and queen and his sister Elizabeth to the royal vault in the Church of St.Denis.

He then gave orders for a _Chapelle Expiatoire_ to be erected over the grave where they had been lying for two decades, and for masses to be said for the repose of the souls of his murdered relatives.