"At one o'clock in the morning, on the 6th of November, M. Bougon announced that the King had but a few moments to live. All fell on their knees; M. le Dauphin (the Duc d'Angoulême) had his head bowed towards his father. Madame la Dauphine alone remained standing at the King's feet, with her hands joined, and seemed to be presiding over that scene of sorrow. At half past one, M. Bougon made a sign to the Duc de Blacas, who leant towards the Dauphin and said a few words to him in a low voice. Then the Prince respectfully closed his father's eyes, and Madame la Dauphine's sobs, bursting forth suddenly amid the silence of death that reigned in the room, announced that all was over." (NETTEMENT: _Histoire de quinze ans d'exil_, Vol. II., pp. 96 _et seq._)--B. [385] "Sixty years with misfortunes the victim have decked!"--T. [386] Romulus Momyllus Augustus, the last Roman Emperor of the West, nicknamed Augustulus because of his youth, was placed on the throne at a very early age, in 475, but compelled to abdicate in the following year by Odoacer King of the Heruli.--T. [387] Henry Essex, Abbé Edgeworth de Firmont (1745-1807).--T. [388] Philip II. Augustus (1165-1223), son of Louis VII., succeeded in 1180.--T. [389] St. Louis IX. (1215-1270), son of Louis VIII., succeeded in 1226.--T. [390] Robert II. (_circa_ 970-1031), son of Hugh Capet, succeeded in 996.--T. [391] Henry IV. (1553-1610) succeeded Henry III. in 1569; and Louis XIV. (1638-1715), son of Louis XIII., succeeded in 1643.--T. [392] Charles VIII. (1470-1498), surnamed the Affable or the Courteous, son of Louis XI., succeeded in 1483.--T. [393] Philip III. (1245-1285), son of St. Louis IX., succeeded in 1270.--T. [394] Charles V. (1337-1380), son of John II., succeeded in 1364.--T. [395] Charles VII. (1403-1461), son of Charles VI., succeeded in 1422.--T. [396] Charles VI. (1368-1422), son of Charles V., succeeded in 1380.--T. [397] Louis XII. (1462-1515) succeeded his cousin Charles VIII. in 1498.--T. [398] Francis I. (1494-1547) succeeded his cousin Louis XII. in 1515.--T. BOOK X[399] Conclusion--Historical antecedents from the Regency to 1793--The Past--The old European order expiring--Inequality of fortunes--Danger of the expansion of intellectual nature and material nature--The downfall of the monarchies--The decline of society and the progress of the individual--The future--The difficulty of understanding it--The Christian idea is the future of the world--Recapitulation of my life--Summary of the changes that have happened on the globe during my life--End of the _Mémoires d'Outre-tombe_. 25 _September_ 1841.