There she passed but a short time, and received notice to leave the kingdom.

With great difficulty she obtained an asylum at Rome, where she lived seven years longer, preserving all her health, strength, mind, and easy grace until she died, in 1722, at more than eighty-four years of age, in obscurity and sadness, notwithstanding her opulence, but avenged of her Spanish foes, Cardinals della Giudice and Alberoni, whom she met again at Rome, disgraced and fugitive like herself.

"I do not know where I may die," she wrote to Madame de Maintenon, at that time in retirement at St.Cyr.
Both had survived their power; the Princess des Ursins had not long since wanted to secure for herself a dominion; Madame de Maintenon, more far-sighted and more modest, had aspired to no more than repose in the convent which she had founded and endowed.

Discreet in her retirement as well as in her life, she had not left to chance the selection of a place where she might die.
[Illustration: Death of Madame de Maintenon .-- --34].