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12 he begged, as a favour, that the sentence should be immediately executed. His wish was granted, and, a four o'clock on the morning of the 7th November, he was led from the court to the guillotine. Thus perished Philippe Egalité in the primo of life, being only in his forty-sixth year.

Some months previous to this event, the Duke of Chartres, and his friend General Dumouriez, were summoned to appear beforo the Comunittee of Public Safety, but, knowing that condemnation was sure to follow, they fled to the Belgian Netherlands. The Austrian authorities were anxious that the Duke should enter their service, but he declined to fight against France, and retired into private life. He now travelled to Switzerland, and, having been joined by his sister Adelaide and Madame de Genlis at Schoffhausen, they went to Zurich, where they intended to take up their abode, but the French royalist emigrants being unfriendly to the House of Orleans, they were obliged to seek a new retreat. They accordingly left Zurich and crossed the mountains to Zug, where they were accommodated with a small house; but, their rank having been discovered, they had again to seek for a place of rest. By the kindness of a friend, Mademoiselle d'Orleans and her instructress were admitted to the convent of Saint-Claire, near Bremgarten; and, being thus relieved of anxiety on their account, the Duke of Chartres travelled over different countries of Europe, an outlaw and an exile, depending on but a small sum of money, his own energies, and an excellent education.

At Basle, the first place he visited, he sold all his horses except one, with which, accompanied by Badouin, a faithful servant who would not leave him, he set out on his journey. Badouin, however, was ill, and being unable to walk, his kind-hearted master mounted him on his own horse, and leading the