During the last years of the reign of Charles X., no one in France more clearly saw the doom of the elder branch than Madame Adelaide. When, at length, the revolution was successful, and the triumph of the Three Days certain and assured, she it was who induced her brother to accept the crown, and for the seventeen years which he has held it she was his principal adviser and most trusted councillor. From the pe

When Louis Philippe joined the army, | of her friend the title of Altesse Sérénisbrother and sister were separated, but they sime, and the affair of his appanage was rejoined each other in Switzerland in 1793, satisfactorily arranged. when the present King of the French was obliged to quit the soil of France; and it was not till the then Duke of Chartres had obtained for his sister the protection of her aunt, the Princess of Conti, that he departed for America. On his return from the United States Madame Adelaide again joined her brother in England, and for a period of nearly half-a-century they were little separated. Madame Adelaide accompanied the present King of the French to Naples, Sicily, Malta, Barcelona, and Gibraltar; and was privy to, and in every manner forwarded, the negotiations for his marriage to Marie Amélie, daughter of the King of Naples, which took place at Palermo in 1809.

Nor was this wonderful.

riod when, during fifteen months of his life, he rose at four o'clock in the morning to teach geometry, geography, French, and English, at the College of Reichenau in Switzerland, he had perpetually corresponded or been in conference with her, and had always found her judgment sure, and her intelligence and tact unsurpassable in difficult conjunctures.

Together they left France, agitated and revolutionized, their father one of the first victims; together they closed, in Spain, the eyes of a dying mother; together they watched, in London and Malta, over the couches of their departed brothers, Montpensier and Beaujolais; together they shared a second time exile from France; together they returned thither in 1817. And was it, therefore, extraordinary, that a prince of a cold and reserved nature should fly to one whom he had so often found true, trustworthy, and full of the surest tact, under the most difficult and trying circumstances?

Previous to and since that period this discreet and sensible woman was the friend and adviser, in all matters of delicacy and difficulty, of her brother; and, to speak truly, she possessed a more masculine and energetic mind than Louis Philippe himself. When Napoleon returned, on the 20th of March, from Elba, she remained till the last moment on the soil of France with the Duke of Orleans; and on the return of Louis XVIII. from England, when the duke fell under the displeasure of the monarch, Madame Adelaide was the chief adviser of her brother. The archives of the Préfecture of Police of that day, if not destroyed or substracted, contain some curious revelations, of which no three men in France are better aware than the present king; the present Chancellor, Etienne De- With nearly all of the remarkable men, nis, duke de Pasquier; and the present whether politicians or journalists, who Grand Référendaire of the House of Peers, struggled for constitutional principles from Elie, duke de Cazes. It is a well-known fact 1815 to 1830, Madame Adelaide was intithat Louis XVIII. hated and rather de- mate. Manuel, Constant, Foy, Etienne, Perspised the Duke of Orleans, but he some-rier, Laffitte, Stanislas, Girardin, Dupin, what feared Madame Adelaide. The astute Bignon, were constantly received by her; monarch was aware of the courage, sagacity, and from 1828, or 1829, she had known constancy, and steadiness of this remarka-Odillon Barrot. She it was who counselled ble woman. Separated from her counsels, her brother, immediately after the revoluhe knew the Duke of Orleans was not dangerous. But, under her influence and guidance, he felt that he had to deal with a name and pretensions which she would render powerful.

Charles X. did not participate in the prejudices or fears of his deceased brother. On his accession to the throne, he received both brother and sister; and the Duchess of Berri, who had become intimate with Madame Adelaide, procured for the brother |

tion of 1830, to confer a pension of 1500
francs on Rouget de Lisle, the author of the
Marseillaise, and to raise the students of
the Ecole Polytechnique, who had distin-
guished themselves during the Three Days,
to the rank of lieutenants.
She it was,
also, who requested that eight crosses might
be distributed among the schools of law.

Though managing her immense property for she, with Louis Philippe, possessed between them all the fortune of their father

the very high and increasing price of butchers' meat, then and now dearer in the marché St. Honoré than in Leadenhall Market, and nearly as dear as West-end London butchers are in the habit of charging. The bals masqués and the Christmas bill-offare at the theatres also lent their aid to revive and brighten up the countenances of our neighbors; and, as if to add zest to their hilarious benevolence, the Thursday before Christmas, a philanthropic ball was given for the benefit of the journeymen tailors. There was not a dandy or exquisite in his Paris tailor's books who was not asked to take tickets, and therefore it was that some of the most elegant, exquisite, and bestdressed of the notabilités of the capital as

wine, the best oysters, excellent fish, and tolerable cookery, at a reasonable rate. In these days, and for some years afterwards, it was a place frequented by numbers of English; but in the John-Bull season of the past year, though the writer dined there half-a-dozen times, he saw but one Englishman, an old habitué of Paris, and one of the judges of his majesty's local courts. How changed, too, was every thing! The comfort of the ancient Gargotier had evaporated when the pristine proprietor became lord and master of the Maison Dorée. The same dismal tale recounted by restaurateurs, was told by coffee-house keepers, and most Parisian tradesman, high and low. Even the Café Foy, the best coffechouse in Paris, and probably of a great es-sisted. Another event also set the batablishment the least dependent on the English, felt the hard pressure of English railroads, monetary crisis, and Irish famine. But tailors, modistes, and bootmakers, were most eloquent. The logical and somewhat too subtle and disputative Chevreuil of the Rue de la Paix wondered what had become of many of his customers. Blin found orders not so rife as even in the war-panic of 1841; and poor Moos, of the Rue de Richelieu, began to think that Chaos was come again, for Messieurs les Anglais neither ordered bottes en cuir vernis nor yet en maroquin. To hear the modistes was positively plaintive, when not ear-splitting by the loudness of their lamentations. Their jeremiads would have made old Pluto shed tears of iron. Herbault conceived that we had re-enacted our old sumptuary laws; Nourtier considered our nobles were fallen to ninepence; and Victorine Baudrand, Madame Thomas, and Madame Haussey, protested that as to England their occupation was nearly gone. Towards merry Christmas things, however, began to mend. The native French, more careful and economic than the English, came out with their nest-eggs of hoarded money, and gave their usual orders for la fete de Noël and the Jour de l'An; and some English peers, and a considerable number of M.P's, with wives and families to match, as well as several Russian Boyards with more money than taste, took up their sojourn in the gayest of capitals. This, with the opening of the Chambers, and the arrival of hundreds of deputies, revived the hearts of the Parisians, depressed by the badness of trade, the high price of breadan article of the first necessity to all men, but most of all to a Frenchman-and

dauds a-talking and a-laughing too. The Saturday before Christmas was rendered memorable by the marriage of the eccentric Marquis de Boissy de Coudry, created a peer in 1815, with the Countess Guiccioli, the friend and chère amie of Lord Byron. Both bride and bridegroom are of a mature age. Even Madame la Comtesse, whatever flatterers may say to the contrary, must be now somewhat on the shady side of fifty, which, for an Italian lady, is equivalent to sixty-three in our colder climate. This union, which was a nine-days' wonder in the Faubourg St. Germain and Chaussée d'Antin, was soon to be rayée from the public mind by an event wholly unexpected by the Parisian public, namely, the death of Madame Adelaide, sole surviving sister of Louis Philippe. Though Madame Adelaide had been ailing for some months before her death with an organic disease known to be ultimately incurable, yet the public in no degree expected her so sudden demise; nor, indeed, did any member of her own family, and, least of all, his majesty the King of the French, for nearly half-a-century the attached brother, friend, and companion, of the sole surviving member of his family.

Madame Adelaide was but four years younger than her brother, and died in the seventy-first year of her age, on the last day of the year. As children, the deceased and Louis Philippe were brought up together at Belle Chasse by Madame de Sillery Genlis; and a journal is now extant in MS., dated 1790, a portion of which was printed in Paris in 1801, in which the King of the French, then seventeen, speaks in the most affectionate terms of his sister, then in her thirteenth year.

During the last years of the reign of Charles X., no one in France more clearly saw the doom of the elder branch than Madame Adelaide. When, at length, the

When Louis Philippe joined the army, | of her friend the title of Altesse Sérénisbrother and sister were separated, but they sime, and the affair of his appanage was rejoined each other in Switzerland in 1793, satisfactorily arranged. when the present King of the French was obliged to quit the soil of France; and it was not till the then Duke of Chartres had obtained for his sister the protection of her aunt, the Princess of Conti, that he de-revolution was successful, and the triumph parted for America. On his return from the United States Madame Adelaide again joined her brother in England, and for a period of nearly half-a-century they were little separated. Madame Adelaide accompanied the present King of the French to Naples, Sicily, Malta, Barcelona, and Gibraltar; and was privy to, and in every manner forwarded, the negotiations for his marriage to Marie Amélie, daughter of the King of Naples, which took place at Palermo in 1809.

of the Three Days certain and assured, she it was who induced her brother to accept the crown, and for the seventeen years which he has held it she was his principal adviser and most trusted councillor.

Nor was this wonderful. From the period when, during fifteen months of his life, he rose at four o'clock in the morning to teach geometry, geography, French, and English, at the College of Reichenau in Switzerland, he had perpetually corresponded or been in conference with her, and had always found her judgment sure, and her intelligence and tact unsurpassable in difficult conjunctures.

Together they left France, agitated and revolutionized, their father one of the first victims; together they closed, in Spain, the eyes of a dying mother; together they watched, in London and Malta, over the couches of their departed brothers, Montpensier and Beaujolais; together they shared a second time exile from France; together they returned thither in 1817. And was it, therefore, extraordinary, that a prince of a cold and reserved nature should fly to one whom he had so often found true, trustworthy, and full of the surest tact, under the most difficult and trying circumstances?

Previous to and since that period this discreet and sensible woman was the friend and adviser, in all matters of delicacy and difficulty, of her brother; and, to speak truly, she possessed a more masculine and energetic mind than Louis Philippe himself. When Napoleon returned, on the 20th of March, from Elba, she remained till the last moment on the soil of France with the Duke of Orleans; and on the return of Louis XVIII. from England, when the duke fell under the displeasure of the monarch, Madame Adelaide was the chief adviser of her brother. The archives of the Préfecture of Police of that day, if not destroyed or substracted, contain some curious revelations, of which no three men in France are better aware than the present king; the present Chancellor, Etienne Denis, duke de Pasquier; and the present Grand Référendaire of the House of Peers, Elie, duke de Cazes. It is a well-known fact that Louis XVIII. hated and rather despised the Duke of Orleans, but he some-rier, Laffitte, Stanislas, Girardin, Dupin, what feared Madame Adelaide. The astute monarch was aware of the courage, sagacity, constancy, and steadiness of this remarkable woman. Separated from her counsels, he knew the Duke of Orleans was not dangerous. But, under her influence and guidance, he felt that he had to deal with a name and pretensions which she would render powerful.

Charles X. did not participate in the prejudices or fears of his deceased brother. On his accession to the throne, he received both brother and sister; and the Duchess of Berri, who had become intimate with Madame Adelaide, procured for the brother |

With nearly all of the remarkable men, whether politicians or journalists, who struggled for constitutional principles from 1815 to 1830, Madame Adelaide was intimate. Manuel, Constant, Foy, Etienne, Per

Bignon, were constantly received by her;
and from 1828, or 1829, she had known
Odillon Barrot. She it was who counselled
her brother, immediately after the revolu-
tion of 1830, to confer a pension of 1500
francs on Rouget de Lisle, the author of the
Marseillaise, and to raise the students of
the Ecole Polytechnique, who had distin-
guished themselves during the Three Days,
She it was,
to the rank of lieutenants.
also, who requested that eight crosses might
be distributed among the schools of law.

Though managing her immense property for she, with Louis Philippe, possessed between them all the fortune of their father

Egalité-with commendable carefulness and economy, yet she was by no means so parsimonious as the king; and is known to have remonstrated with him frequently on the small allowances made to his children. The Duke de Montpensier, to whom the king had given the sobriquet of the Duke Dépensier, was often indebted to her bounty. She was known to have relieved him from more than one embarrassment, as well as his brother the Duke d'Aumale, whose debts at the period of his marriage amounted to nine millions of francs. As children, and as young men, she afforded them many objects of luxury and enjoyment denied them by their too penurious father; and is also known to have frequently softened and assuaged the Royal anger. Such a mediator in a family was invaluable; and no one ought to, or does feel the loss more than the King of the French.

The habits of her remarkable brother, the only remaining descendant of Egalite, are strictly sober and sparing. He is an early riser, never being found in bed after six in the summer, or after eight in winter. After his majesty has had a small cup of coffee, he reads letters and papers, and some French and English journals, and expedites the most urgent affairs of the day.

At nine o'clock he is accustomed to enter his cabinet de toilette, where it was the wont of Madame Adelaide to come with the king's grandchildren. With these his majesty amuses himself for a while, cntering into their views with boyish zest. The younger folk dismissed, Louis Philippe finishes his toilette. Unlike any Bourbon from the time of Henry IV., the operation of shaving is, and has been performed, not as in ancient times, by the chirurgien du roi, or the premier valet-de-chambre, but with the royal hand. Of his teeth his majesty is particularly careful; and though not a coxcomb or a fop, he is scrupulously

neat.

For old shoes and boots he exhibits, however, a decided partiality, and also loves to work in his cabinet de travail in an old coat. At ten the king breakfasts à la fourchette, drinking a small quantity of Bordeaux undiluted with water.

At eleven, when in Paris, he generally visits the buildings of the Tuileries and Palais Royal. On such occasions he was often accompanied by his departed sister, and generally by his architect. Here his majesty was in a congenial element. He has no mean knowledge of architecture; and is seldom so happy as when dabbling

in brick and mortar, and ordering necessary alterations and repairs. He talks on these subjects familiarly with workmen,surveyors, architects, artists, &c.

At one o'clock his majesty generally returns to the Tuileries to preside over a council of ministers. On taking his place at the head of the council, his majesty speaks but little, yet listens attentively. Sometimes he questions, and occasionally he objects; but his chief visible occupation during the time the cabinet sits, is in drawing figures, grotesque and fanciful, and occasionally cutting envelopes out of the paper before him. When the cabinet has ceased to deliberate on any given question, his majesty sums up the statements and arguments very much in the manner of an English judge, and ultimately a resolve is come to. Though the king cannot be said to be either eloquent, or luminous, or profound, yet he is calm, painstaking, and sagacious; and in foreign and diplomatic questions, has a great advantage over all his ministers, from his minute knowledge of the principal states and courts of Europe, and of the traditional system of their diplomacy. He is a laborious, painstaking, observant man; and has had more opportunities of travel than almost any living Frenchman. He has visited nearly every court of Europe, more especially courts out of the beaten track of ordinary travellers. On leaving Hamburg in 1795, he journeyed both to Copenhagen and to Stockholm; and it was at Christiana he first made the acquaintance of M. Monod, subsequently the Protestant pastor at Paris.

His majesty saw everything remarkable in Sweden and Norway; he then visited Lapland and Iceland, and went five degrees nearer the Pole than Maupertuis and the poet Regnard. In America, also, he penetrated to the Chippewas, passed a year at Cuba, proceeded thence to the Bahamas, and ultimately to Halifax, where he first became acquainted with the father of our Queen Victoria, his royal highness the Duke of Kent, then commanding there. So travelled and so observant a man, and one speaking so many languages: for his majesty converses in English, German, Italian, and Spanish-has great advantages over an ordinary minister; and it is, therefore, not surprising that a sovereign, who has experienced greater vicissitudes, and seen more of men and things, than any one of his cabinet, should sometimes strenuously

stickle for the prevalence of his own opin- | sister-in-law, Madame Adelaide, and the ion, and endeavor to carry his point.

When the cabinet breaks up the ministers dispute with each other for the caricatures and figures which escape from the sovereign's fertile pen. These are treasured up in portfolios by female friends, and per-worthy religieuses the primeur of his claret sons of high rank, and altogether form a curious collection. Several of them may be seen in a certain portfolio in the Place St. George.