in great peace, content to pass the rest of my
life there, if such were the will of God. I sang songs of joy, which
the maid who served me learned by heart, as fast as I made them. We
together sang thy praises, O, my God! The stones of my prison looked in
my eyes like rubies; I esteemed them more than all the gaudy
brilliancies of a vain world. My heart was full of that joy which Thou
givest to them who love Thee, in the midst of their greatest crosses.

When things were carried to the greatest extremities, being then in the
Bastile, I said, "O, my God, if thou art pleased to render me a new
spectacle to men and angels, Thy holy will be done!"

DECEMBER, 1709.

Here she left off her narrative, though she lived a retired life above
seven years after this date. What she had written being only done in
obedience to the commands of her director. She died June 9, 1717, at
Blois, in her seventieth year.

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