. The seven richest heiresses of France. he arrived at the Ven-dome Palace he found that she could not speak,and she only smiled at him. Mme. de Motteville says in her Memoirs that** As she did not suffer, and as she was conscious,approaching death did not produce in her thatfrightful change which it causes in bright complexion produced by fever hadincreased her natural beauty. Everybody re-gretted her very much. The Cardinal was sotouched that he could not help giving way toviolent grief; he shrieked so much that it seemedthat he had sharp pains. This beautiful dying woman, Mme.
. The seven richest heiresses of France. he arrived at the Ven-dome Palace he found that she could not speak,and she only smiled at him. Mme. de Motteville says in her Memoirs that** As she did not suffer, and as she was conscious,approaching death did not produce in her thatfrightful change which it causes in bright complexion produced by fever hadincreased her natural beauty. Everybody re-gretted her very much. The Cardinal was sotouched that he could not help giving way toviolent grief; he shrieked so much that it seemedthat he had sharp pains. This beautiful dying woman, Mme. deMercoeur, having been ill but one day and onenight, expired on February the 8th, sincerely re-gretted by her relations and everybody at theCourt, for virtue and good-heartedness attract thegood-will of the people. This quick and surprisingdeath that seemed to triumph over a young andhealthy princess, who was beautiful and a niece ofa powerful favourite by whom the whole of France was ruled, proved that all is vanity which is to be 82. Laura ManciniThe Duchess de Mercceur [to face page 82 Seven Richest Heiresses of France found in the grandeur and in the false joys of theearth. An eye-witness, Daniel de Cosnac, Archbishopof Aix, gives us in his Memoirs still more precisedetails showing how charming was this younglady who smiled a few moments before her death. For ten days she did not suffer at all. Ispent a part of those ten days in her room, and Ifound her more gay than she was since hermothers death. I chaffed her on account of herfeebleness and of her staying in bed, notwithstand-ing that she looked so healthy. She told me thatshe was unable to get rid of a thought which shehad during her pregnancy, viz., that she wouldnever recover from this lying-in. I laughed ather apprehension. . Mme. de Venelle, her lady-in-waiting, beingin the chamber, the Princess began to talk,laughing about her dissolution ; among otherthings, she said, that while dying, she would beunable to refr
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