. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . preceded by an equally badnight. The King continually lost his reason. About five oclock in theevening Madame de Maintenon left him, gave away her furniture to thedomestics, and went to St. Cyr for good and all. On Saturday the 31st of August things went from bad to worse. Thegangrene had spread from the knee and reached the thigh. Towards elevenoclock prayers for the dying were said. This restored the King to repeated, several times, Nunc et in hora mortis and
. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . preceded by an equally badnight. The King continually lost his reason. About five oclock in theevening Madame de Maintenon left him, gave away her furniture to thedomestics, and went to St. Cyr for good and all. On Saturday the 31st of August things went from bad to worse. Thegangrene had spread from the knee and reached the thigh. Towards elevenoclock prayers for the dying were said. This restored the King to repeated, several times, Nunc et in hora mortis and then O myGod! come to my aid. Hasten to succour me. These were his last the night he lay, without consciousness, in a long struggle that finishedon Sunday the ist of September 1715, at a quarter past eight in the days before, he had completed his seventy-seventh year and theseventy-second of his reign. He had survived all his sons and grandsonsexcept the King of Spain and the Dauphin. Europe never had seen so longa reign, nor France so old a King. Authority: Memoirs of the Due de Saint Mahik IkiuviERKs 0\i\^ii- OUVON). No. 45 The Death of Jeanne Bouvieres de la Motte 13th April 1648. Died 9th June 1717. (AQuietist and follower of Molinos.) IN the beginning of the month of March, 1717, Madame Guyon had asevere attack of illness from which she never recovered. During hersickness she conversed with her friends and wrote a few letters, but shehad no doubt, as she wrote to her brother, that the time of her departure wasat hand. She went on to say: For a considerable time past I have had iton my mind to tell you this, and if you can come and see me before my lasthour arrives, I shall receive you with joy. Her labours indeed were over;that hour to which she had long looked forward, Gods hour, was rapidlyapproaching. Already most of those with whom she had associated, asfriends or enemies, had departed. Fenelon, Beauvilliers, the grea
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