I now possessed nothing in the world but an assignat of five hundred francs.

I had become responsible for my husband's debts, to the amount of thirty thousand francs.

I chose St.Germain to set up a boarding-school, for that town did not remind me, as Versailles did, both of happy times and of the misfortunes of France.
I took with me a nun of l'Enfant-Jesus, to give an unquestionable pledge of my religious principles.

The school of St.Germain was the first in which the opening of an oratory was ventured on.

The Directory was displeased at it, and ordered it to be immediately shut up; and some time after commissioners were sent to desire that the reading of the Scriptures should be suppressed in my school.