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 pressed a wish to bid good-bye for the last time to the two theatres which had witnessed her period of probation and the glorious days of her triumphs. Jules Janin tells us:—

Her life, thanks to the warm, dry air of Le Cannet, was prolonged until the mouth of January 1858, much longer than she herself expected. Towards the end of December, feeling her strength fail, she made a supreme effort. In one day she wrote seventeen letters, and prepared seventeen little boxes, filled with orange flowers; on the top of each she laid one of the letters.