Thus she must often have appeared as she sat in her quiet room at Chaillot, or knelt in the convent chapel; and if in later years she was able to take up life again with something of her old courage and cheerfulness, it was because her wounded spirit had met healing and peace in this beloved home, which had been founded, as the archives of the Order recorded, for the consolation of a suffering woman, and which, after sheltering the sorrows of one exiled Queen of England, was to extend a like welcome to another hardly less unfortunate, Mary Beatrice d'Este, the wife of Henrietta's second son, James II.[420] [Footnote 402: "Mon inclination est de me retirir dans les Carmelites ... car après ma perte je ne puis avoir un moment de aucune joye."--_Lettres de Henriette Marie à sa soeur Christine_, p. 71.] [Footnote 403: Jeanne Chantal.] [Footnote 404: _A New Description of Paris_ (1887), p. 121. The chapel is now a church of the _église réformée_.] [Footnote 405: Queen Anne of Austria was very fond of this convent. Mazarin, in the early days of his power, believed that the nuns tried to influence her against him.] [Footnote 406: Mme de Motteville: _Mémoires_ (1783), I, 72.] [Footnote 407: This account is taken from that written by Caussin, an old copy of which is preserved in the Bibliothèque S. Geneviève, in Paris. Caussin's manuscript was only seen by Mother de la Fayette shortly before her death.] [Footnote 408: Her profession took place in July, 1637.] [Footnote 409: Louise Eugénie de la Fontaine. During the second war of the Fronde this lady received into the convent a number of religious (among them the Chaillot nuns) who were afraid to remain outside Paris. "Il sembloit que cette maison étoit un petit Paradis Terrestre ou une arche qui vaguoit en assurance dans un repos admirable pendant que tout étoit dans une confusion épouvantable et qu'on entendoit de tous cotez les canons et les mosquets qui se tiroient à la batail de la porte S. Antoine."--_Vie de la Ven. Mère Louise Eugénie de la Fontaine._] [Footnote 410: Evelyn: _Diary_. December 5th, 1643.] [Footnote 411: MS. 2436, Bibliothèque Mazarine, Paris. From this history many of the details of this chapter are taken.] [Footnote 412: He was an old friend and disciple of Bérulle.] [Footnote 413: She was apparently a sister of Sir William Hamilton, the Queen's late agent in Rome.] [Footnote 414: _Miscellanea Spiritualia_, Pt. II (1653).] [Footnote 415: _Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn_ (1859), Vol. IV, p. 352.] [Footnote 416: Madame de Motteville: _Mémoires_, VI, p. 212 (1783).] [Footnote 417: The Superiors of the Order of the Visitation are chosen for three years. Mother de la Fayette held office three times, from 1654-7, from 1657-60, and from 1663 until her death in the following year.] [Footnote 418: C[arlo] C[otolendi]: _Vie de la très haute et très puissante Princesse Henriette Marie de France Reyne de la Grande Bretagne_, p. 311.]