ower; Danton, Camille
Desmoulins, d'Eglantine, and their fellows went to the guillotine.

But other as able and resolute men had determined that Robespierre and
his Terror must end; Robespierre went to the guillotine. The
Revolution of the Ninth Thermidor put an end to the Terror in July 1794.

It was whilst at Vienna, in her thirty-ninth year, on the 3rd of June
1794, during the Terror, that Vigee Le Brun took out her act of
divorce. And it was in this year that "citizen Le Brun" published in
Paris his _Precis historique de la vie de la citoyenne Le Brun,
peintre_!

In her fortieth year Vigee Le Brun went from Vienna to Prague; and,
getting roaming again, passed through Dresden to Berlin and on to St.
Petersburg, where she arrived in the July of this same year of 1795.

Her welcome in St. Petersburg must have been very sweet to the
wandering exile. On the morrow of her arrival the Empress Catherine
had her presented. She found at St. Petersburg many of her old
friends, fled from the Revolution.

To her all Europe became a second country; but St. Petersburg her
second home. Here, in fact, were larger numbers of those that had
meant Paris to her than she could now have found in Paris itself. She
was besides a spoiled child of the Court.

Her life at St. Petersburg was a very busy one. She settled down at
once to the industrious practice of that art that was breath and life
and holiday to her--working from morning until nightfall, and happy in
it all. She painted something like forty-eight portraits in St.
Petersburg. The Empress Catherine, now an old woman, was to have sat
to her, and had appointed the day and hour, but her "to-day at eight"
was not to be; apoplexy struck down her good-will; she was found dead
in her room. The six years in St. Petersburg were amongst the happiest
years of the artist's life, and the richest for her fortunes. Her
reception into the Academy of St. Petersburg was almost a State triumph.

Meanwhile, the armies of France were winning the respect of the world
by their gallantry and skill in war. The 23rd of September 1795 saw
France ruled by the Directory. The 5th of October, the "Day of the
Sections," led to Napoleon Bonaparte's employment as second in command
of the army--the young general was soon commander-in-chief. And France
thenceforth advanced, with all the genius of her race to that splendid
and astounding recovery of her fortunes and to that greatness which
becam