death of his guest, 205; goes to a soirée at Madame de Krudener’s, 210; describes his flattering reception, 213; meets with an old friend, 216; listens to the prayer and prophecies of the seeress, 219, 223; his feelings on leaving the _soirée_, 224; remarkable revelation made to him by his friend, Bergasse, 225; illness of, 232; his domestic establishment, 234; his servant, Courtiade, warmly attached to him, 235; preparations for his farewell-audience of Louis-Philippe, 237; the last act of his existence, his retractation, 239; report relative to this step, 240; disinterested conduct of, _ib._; falls into a lethargic slumber, 241; Louis-Philippe and Madame Adelaide visit him, _ib._; contrast in his appearance to that of the king, 242; his conversation with him, _ib._, 243; symptoms of his approaching dissolution, 246; his friends assembled on the occasion, 247; account of his last moments, 249; his death, 251; prayers of his domestics for him, 252; vault prepared for his remains at Valençay, 253; his body conveyed from Paris at midnight, 254; curious incident that occurred on the occasion, 255; arrival of the hearse at Valençay, _ib._; his coffin deposited in the family vault, 257; last homage to, 258; his maxims for seasoning conversation, 261; his passion for Madame de Talleyrand, 263; his opinion of Fox, 270; his private letters to Marshal Sebastiani on the affairs of Belgium, 276, 280, 284; reasons on which he grounded his vote, in the affair of Lieutenants-General Guilleminot and Bordesoulle, 289; fragments from his Memoirs, 296; his letter to William IV., on being appointed ambassador from France, 306; his opinion on the plan of law relative to journals and periodical publications, 307; on ecclesiastical property, 317; extracts from his speech on ecclesiastical reform, 322; his opinion on banks, and finance, 326. Talleyrand, Princess de, fascinations of, i. 80; inquiry of, 3; dismay of, 84; particulars relative to, 248; an eccentric person, 250; haughty behaviour of, 253; her adventure with the postmaster, 255; _petit billet_ of, 258; her irreproachable conduct, ii. 172; anecdote of, 173; separate establishment of, _ib._; her devotion to the interests of the prince, 174; annoyances caused by, 175; ridicule of, 176; _naïveté_ uttered by, 177; passion of the Prince for, 263. Tea-urn, story of the mysterious one, ii. 152. Thiers, M., his stay at Rochecotte, i. 56; conspires against the government of Charles X., _ib._; light in which Talleyrand viewed him, 57.