With the Hundred Days came another sudden change.  At the first rumour of Bonaparte’s landing, Mme. de Combray set out for the coast and crossed to England.  If the alarm was intense, it lasted but a short time.  In July, 1815, the Marquise returned to Tournebut, which she busied herself with repairing.  She found scope for her energy in directing the workmen, in superintending to the smallest detail the administration of her estate, and in looking after her household with the particularity of former times.  Although Louis XVIII’s Jacobinism seems to have been the first thing that disillusioned the old royalist, she was none the less the Lady of Tournebut, and within the limits of her estate she could still believe that she had returned to the days before 1789.  She still had her seat at church, and her name was to be found in 1819 inscribed on the bell at Aubevoye of which she was patroness.

Mme. de Combray never again quitted Tournebut, where she lived with her son Bonnoeil, waited upon by Catherine Querey, who had been faithful to her in her misfortunes.  Except for this faithful girl, the Marquise had made a clean sweep of all her old servants.  None of them are to be found among the persons who surrounded her during the Restoration.  These were a maid, Henriette Lerebour, a niece of Mlle. Querey; a cook, a coachman and a footman.  During the years that followed, there was an incessant coming and going of workmen at Tournebut.  In 1823 the chateau and its surrounding walls were still undergoing repairs.  In the middle of October of the same year, Mme. de Combray, who was worn out, took to her bed.  On the morning of Thursday, the 23d, it was reported that she was very ill, and two village women were engaged to nurse her.  At eight o’clock in the evening the tolling of the bells announced that the Marquise was no more.

Her age was eighty-one years and nine months.  When the judge called on Friday, at Bonnoeil’s special request, to affix seals to her effects, he asked to be taken first into the chamber of death, where he saw the Marquise lying in her painted wooden bed, hung with chintz curtains.  The funeral took place at the church of Aubevoye, the poor of the village forming an escort to the coffin which the men carried on their shoulders.  After the service it was laid in a grave dug under a large dark tree at the entrance to the cemetery.  The tomb, which is carefully kept, bears to this day a quite legible inscription setting forth in clumsy Latin the Marquise de Combray’s extraordinary history.

The liquidation of her debts, which followed on her decease and the division of her property, brought Acquet de Ferolles’ daughters to Tournebut, all three of whom were well married.  In making an inventory of the furniture in the chateau, they found amongst things forgotten in the attic the harp on which their mother had played when as a young girl she had lived at Tournebut, and a saddle which the “dragoon” may have used on her nocturnal rides towards the hill of Authevernes in pursuit of coaches.