My father has seen the King and the Princes several times since the catastrophe, and he says it has done the work of years on their personal appearance, The Due de Nemours has neither eaten nor slept since his brother died, and looks as if walking out of his grave.

Mamma wrote him a few lines of condolence, which he answered by a most affecting note.

Papa was summoned to attend the King to the House, as _Grand Officier_, and says he never witnessed such a scene.

Even the opposition shed their crocodile tears.

Placed immediately near the King on the steps of the throne, he saw the struggle between kingly decorum and fatherly affliction.