Sophie Dawes, Queen of Chantilly . rom the Palais-Royal—Sophie unmasks—The popularity of the due de Bourbon—Sophie demands her reward—Victory !—The Revolution of1830—Terror of the last of the Condes—Les Rois en exil—The due de Bourbon writes a manifesto—Plans for flight—Failure—Rumours of another will. THE ill-health of the due de Bourbonbecame more pronounced towards theend of 1829. Instead of restraininghis appetite and recommending him toexercise moderation in the matter of eating anddrinking, Mme. de Feucheres was always urginghim to eat more than was good for him. Thebaron de Prejean give
Sophie Dawes, Queen of Chantilly . rom the Palais-Royal—Sophie unmasks—The popularity of the due de Bourbon—Sophie demands her reward—Victory !—The Revolution of1830—Terror of the last of the Condes—Les Rois en exil—The due de Bourbon writes a manifesto—Plans for flight—Failure—Rumours of another will. THE ill-health of the due de Bourbonbecame more pronounced towards theend of 1829. Instead of restraininghis appetite and recommending him toexercise moderation in the matter of eating anddrinking, Mme. de Feucheres was always urginghim to eat more than was good for him. Thebaron de Prejean gives us the following detailsof his illness :— Mme. de Feucheres used to have her dinnerbrought up to the dukes room. She persuadedhim to eat whatever she herself ate ; and, althoughthe dukes physicians had ordered him to bevery abstemious, she urged him to drink notonly his usual beverage (yin de Chamber tin), buteven champagne, which helped to keep his legsin an inflamed condition, and caused the doctors 142. z ^ The Dukes Letters to declare that they would never be able to curehim. For some time past, Sophie had been in thehabit of opening the dukes letters, especiallythose of any importance ; at first he had pro-tested against this new act of tyranny ; but hemight just as well have held his peace, for Sophietook no notice of his protests. M. de Surval, bydint of taking extraordinary precautions, managedwith the help of the dukes faithful valet, Manoury,and his godson Obry, to fetch and carry suchletters as their master did not wish his mistressto see. We notice that the due dOrleans, in his letterof New Years wishes to the due de Bourbon, omitsto send any messages to Sophie. His erstwhileguardian angel was too clever a woman not tonotice this omission, which perhaps caused herto write the following letter to M. de Lambot, inwhich she excuses herself for not having been tocall upon the duchesse dOrleans on New YearsDay and says that she had not dared to
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