[88] "This gloomy and forsaken château," says St. Amand, "whose only attraction was the half-forgotten memory of its vanished splendours, was a fit image of the woman who came to seek sanctuary there."
[89] He endows the husband with £4000 a year, and the title of Count Tascher.
[90] "Une épouse sans époux, et une reine sans royaume"—St. Amand.
[91] Aubenas.
[92] Mlle. d'Avrillon says that during the Swiss voyage Josephine found it desirable, for the first time, to "wear whalebone in her corsets."
[93] The same question may be asked respecting the death of Montaigne.
[94] Memoires et Correspondance de l'Impératrice Joséphine, par J. B. J. Innocert Philadelphe Regnault Varin. Paris, 1820, 8o. This book is not in the British Museum Catalogue.
[95] Josephine Impératrice et Reine, Paris, 1899.