The handsome fellow, who was a man only in appearance, inflamed her with curiosity if not with love, and caused a rupture with the prince, who caught her in the very act.

But Coraline managed to coax him back, and, a short time after, a reconciliation took place between them, and such a good one, that a babe was the consequence of it; a girl, whom the prince named Adelaide, and to whom he gave a dowry.

After the death of his father, the Duke of Valentinois, the prince left her altogether and married Mlle.

de Brignole, from Genoa.

Coraline became the mistress of Count de la Marche, now Prince de Conti.