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 witnessed this most frightful spectacle, to form any true idea of these united calamities, unexampled in the annals of the world."

A remarkable instance of the power of sudden and violent grief, operating on keen sensibility, occurred in Paris, during the horrors of the revolution. It happened on the memorable and bloody 10th of August, 1792, when the unfortunate Louis and his family, attacked by a furious mob in the palace of the Thuilleries, sought for refuge in the convention.

"When the infuriated mob were dragging away a dead body, a lady, with dishevelled hair and a countenance of wild distraction, forced through the crowd. She came to seek an assassinated husband! The body was mangled and disfigured, but it resembled the adored object she sought. She approached it, and gazed on it. She seized the right hand, and found her wedding ring. She instantly sunk on the beloved corpse, clung round it, and became senseless and motionless. Horror-struck, the spectators stared, and at last would tear her from the dismal sight; they separated her from the body, but she had died in the embrace!"