TWO:I have endeavoured to be accurate in all the dates and incidents, and have derived my information from many sources, including the ��M��moires de Louis XVIII., recueillis par le Duc de D����,�� M��moires de la Comtesse d��Adh��mar, de Mme. Campan, MM. de Besenval, de S��gur, &c., also the works of the Duchesse d��Abrant��s, Comtesse de Bassanville, Mme. de Cr��quy, Mme. de Genlis, Mme. Le Brun, MM. Ars��ne Houssaye, de Lamartine, Turquan, Dauban, Bouquet, and various others, besides two stories never yet published, one of which was given me by a member of the family to which it happened; the other was told me in the presence of the old man who was the hero of it.Mme. Le Brun describes her as affectionate, simple, and royally generous. Hearing that the French Ambassador to Venice, M. de Bombelle, was the only one who refused to sign the Constitution, thereby reducing himself and his family to poverty; she wrote to him that all sovereigns owed a debt of gratitude to faithful subjects, and gave him a pension of twelve thousand francs. Two of his sons became Austrian ministers at Turin and Berne, another was Grand-Master of the household of Marie Louise.