but they did not dare to do so. The Vicomtesse de Noailles made the same request with regard to an empty portfolio, a portrait, and some hair; but she received the same reply, that such commissions would compromise them all. She made Madame Lavet promise to tell Monsieur Grelet that she should die in peace and perfect resignation, but that she longed from the bottom of her heart to see him and her children. Some one in that sorrowful room uttered the name of her dear sister, Madame de la Fayette; she forbade them to speak of her lest it should compromise her. Madame de Noailles, the younger, of whom I have just spoken, did not even think of sleeping; her eyes were wide open, contemplating that Heaven which she was so soon to enter. Her face showed the serenity of her soul. Thoughts of eternity sustained her courage. Such calmness was never seen in that terrible place. She forgot herself entirely in caring for her mother and grandmother. At six o'clock in the morning, in order to distract their minds, we undertook to give them some breakfast. Mesdames de Boufflers brought them some chocolate. They remained with them a few moments and then bade them a final farewell. Nine o'clock struck; the bailiffs came, and found their victims surrounded by the weeping friends who had known them only twelve hours. The mother made some arrangements in case they should be acquitted. The daughter, who never once doubted the fate which awaited her, thanked Madame Lavet in her sweet, gracious way, expressed her gratitude for all her kindness, and then said: 'I read good fortune in your face; you will not be beheaded.' This is all that I have been able to learn from Madame Lavet in reference to that terrible scene. (Signed) NOAILLES, Duchesse de Duras. ----- Footnote 1: The Prince de Poix, who had defended and followed the king on the 10th of August. ----- Footnote 2: A line of Racine.--TRANSLATER. ----- Footnote 3: This 'little château,' dated from the sixteenth century, is one of the finest specimens of Renaissance architecture in existence, and was included in the gift of the Duc d'Aumale to the French nation (1886). The Grand Château, where Condé had spent twenty years of his life, and which was so famous for its literary associations with the names of Molière, Boileau, Racine, and La Fontaine, was destroyed in 1793.--TRANSLATER. ----- Footnote 4: One of the holidays laid down in the revised Revolutionary calendar.--TRANSLATER. ----- Footnote 5: A detailed account of the prison of the Luxembourg may be found in the journal of Madame Latour. ----- Footnote 6: The Vicomtesse de Noailles. ----- Footnote 7: The victims brought before the Revolutionary tribunal for examination were placed in an armchair, and from it they were taken to the scaffold. -----