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A week or two ago he arranged to meet the King of Naples at Porto d'Anzo, and up comes a violent storm and gale that lasts a week; then another arrangement was made, and then the fracas about the ex-queen of Spain. Then, again, here was Lord O came in the other day from Albano, being rather unwell; so the Pope sends him his special blessing, when pop! he dies right off in a twinkling.
Toss as he may, his dreams do not discover the lost secret. Even Philip Hardin may meet a Nemesis. Villa Rocca, slain by a well-contrived accident, died for a secret he knew not. His own hand slew the woman who knew alone of the changelings, save the bright and defiant ex-queen of the El Dorado. Dark memories hover around some of the great mines of the Pacific.
New Year's Day at Court The royal tokens A singular audience A proposition Birth of the Princess Christine Public festivities A ballet on horseback The King resolves to humble the Duc de Bouillon Arguments of the Queen Policy of Henry The Court proceeds to Torcy Surrender of Bouillon The sovereigns enter Sedan Rejoicings of the citizens State entry into Paris The High Court of Justice assigns to the ex-Queen Marguerite the county of Auvergne The "Te Deum" Marguerite makes a donation of her recovered estates to the Dauphin Inconsistencies of Marguerite Jealousy of the Queen of Madame de Moret Increasing coldness of the King towards that lady The frail rivals Princely beacons -Indignation of the Queen Narrow escape of the King and Queen Gratitude of the Queen to her preserver Insolent pleasantry of the Marquise de Verneuil A disappointment compensated Marriage of the Duc de Bar The King invites the Duchess of Mantua to become sponsor to the Dauphin, and the Duc de Lorraine to the younger Princess The Mantuan suite Preparations at Notre-Dame The plague in Paris The Court removes to Fontainebleau The royal christenings Increase of the plague Royal disappointments The Duchesse de Nevers Discourtesy of the King Dignity of the Duchess.
Our seats were near to those of the royal party, consisting of the king, queen, and ex-queen Isabella, with a number of ladies and gentlemen of the household. The easy and graceful manners of the queen were in strong contrast to the arrogant and vulgar style of Isabella, whose character is so dark a stain upon Spanish royalty. Every seat of the large circular theatre was occupied.
The hypothesis is, then, that Saint-Germain was the son of this ex-Queen of Spain, and of the financial Count, Andanero, a man, 'not born in the sphere of Counts, and easily transformed by tradition into a Jewish banker of Bordeaux.
His wife the ex-Queen, had retired in 1815 to Frankfort and to Brussels, where she was well received by the King, William, and where she stayed till 1823, when she went to Florence, dying there in 1845. Her monument is in the Cappella Riccardi, Santa Croce, Florence.
My colleagues have arranged it all... and I have vainly tried to protest against the rigorous measures which are to be enforced against her in the Temple prison.... But these are answering so completely in the case of the ex-queen, they have so completely broken her spirit and her pride, that my colleagues felt that they would prove equally useful in order to bring the Scarlet Pimpernel through his wife to an humbler frame of mind."
About this time Maria Theresa, Contessa de Montelin, ex-Queen of Spain, when she was on her death-bed, sent for Isabel, and charged her to keep up, maintain, and promote certain pious societies which she had started in Trieste. One of these was "The Apostleship of Prayer," whose members, women, were to be active in doing good works, corporally and spiritually, in Trieste.
But the ex-Queen contrived to frustrate his design, and having possessed herself of a fleet of ships, and taken on board the greater number of the nobles, sailed away, with her husband's wealth untouched, to Cyprus first, and then to Africa.
His wife, the ex-Queen Catherine, fell into the hands of Maubreuil, the officer sent on a mysterious mission, believed to be intended for the murder of Napoleon, but which only resulted in the robbery of the Queen's jewels and of some 80,000 francs. The jewels were for the most part recovered, being fished up from the bed of the Seine, but not the cash.
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