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 political writer and reformer, residing in Cambridgeshire. Mrs. Adams was a true poet; she wrote occasional criticisms, which display much acuteness of intellect; but her soul was breathed forth in her devotional lyrics. She died in August 1848, and one of her own beautiful hymns was sung over her grave. Her longest and most powerful poem is entitled "Vivia Perpetua."  ADELAIDE, of Rodolphus, king of Burgundy, married Lotharius the Second, king of Italy, and after his death, Otho the First, emperor of Germany. Her character was exemplary, and she always exerted her influence for the good of her subjects. She died in 999, aged sixty-nine.  ADELAIDE, , of France, the eldest daughter of Louis the Fifteenth, and Aunt of Louis the Sixteenth, was born at Versailles, in the year 1732. This princess, although constantly exposed to the contaminating influence of a dissipated court, was distinguished for the purity of her morals; she kept aloof from any participation in the various intrigues that were in active operation around her, during the reign of both her father and nephew; and her strong good sense enabled her to detect the fallacy and foresee the danger of the financial schemes of the minister Calonne. Anxious to escape the revolutionary storm which she saw was about to break upon her unhappy country, she quitted Paris for Rome, in February, 1791, accompanied by her sister Madame Victoire. After several detentions on the route, the royal sisters reached Rome, where they remained until the approach of the French army in 1799, compelled them again to become fugitives. They first sought refuge in Naples, then in Corfu, and ultimately in Trieste, where Madame Adelaide died, in the early part of 1800, having survived her sister nine months.  ADELAIDE, of Italy, was the daughter of Olderic or Odelric Manfredi, Count of Turin and of Susa, and warden of the Italian marshes. Adelaide married in 1035, on the death of her father, Herman, Duke of Suabia, who succeeded by right of his wife, to Olderic's estates and honours, including the Marquisate of Italy. He died in 1038, without issue, and his widow married the Marquis Henry of Alerum, in Montferrat; who died without children. In 1045, Adelaide married a third time—Oddo, who became Lord of Turin, Marquis of Italy, and held other important offices and possessions; he died in 1060, leaving two sons and a daughter, who were the foundation of the powerful House of Savoy. The Marchioness acted as regent during the minority of her sons, and afterwards continued to advise and assist the eldest, Peter, after he had received the investiture of the marquisate, taking part in most of the great political events of that period of Italian history. She died in December 1091, and left a name which shines out brightly as a star from the obscurity of the eleventh century. She appears to have been exceedingly charitable and pious, as well as able to rule and counsel. 