d Leave to see Clery.--Madame Royale is taken Ill.--
Plans are formed for the Queen's Escape by MM. Jarjayes, Toulan, and by
the Baron de Batz.--Marie Antoinette refuses to leave her Son.--Illness of
the young King.--Overthrow of the Girondins.--Insanity of the Woman
Tison.--Kindness of the Queen to her.--Her Son is taken from her, and
intrusted to Simon.--His Ill-treatment.--The Queen is removed to the
Conciergerie.--She is tried before the Revolutionary Tribunal.--She is
condemned.--Her last Letter to the Princess Elizabeth.--Her Death and
Character.

Shouts in the streets announced to her and those around her that all was
over. All the morning she had alarmed the princesses by the speechless,
tearless stupor into which she seemed plunged; but at last she roused
herself, and begged to see Clery, who had been with Louis till he left the
Temple, and who, therefore, she hoped, might have some last message for
her, some last words of affection, some parting gift. And so indeed he
had;[1] for the last act of Louis had been to give that faithful servant
his seal for the dauphin, and his ring for the queen, with a little packet
containing portions of her hair and those of his children which he had
been in the habit of wearing. And he had bid him tell them all--"the
queen, his dear children, and his sister--that he had promised to see them
that morning, but that he had desired to save them the pain of so cruel a
separation. How much," he continued, "does it cost me to go without
receiving their last embraces! You must bear to them my last farewell."

But even the poor consolation of receiving these sad tokens of unchanged
affection was refused to her. The Council refused Clery admittance to her,
and seized the little trinkets and the packet of hair. The king's last
words never reached her. But a few days afterward, Toulan, one of the
commissioners of the Council, who sympathized with her bereavement, found
means to send her the ring and seal.[2] Her sister and her daughter were
the more anxious that she should see Clery, from the hope that
conversation with him might bring on a flood of tears, which would have
given her some relief. But her own fortitude was her best support.
Miserable as she was, hopeless as she was, it was characteristic of her
magnanimous courage that she did not long give way to womanly
lamentations. She recollected that she had still duties to perform to the
living, to her daughter and sister, and, abo