The confession of the Dauphine was long.  Extreme unction was administered immediately afterwards; and the holy viaticum directly.  An hour afterwards the Dauphine desired the prayers for the dying to be said.  They told her she was not yet in that state, and with words of consolation exhorted her to try and get to sleep.  Seven doctors of the Court and of Paris were sent for.  They consulted together in the presence of the King and Madame de Maintenon.  All with one voice were in favour of bleeding at the foot; and in case it did not have the effect desired, to give an emetic at the end of the night.  The bleeding was executed at seven o’clock in the evening.  The return of the fever came and was found less violent than the preceding.  The night was cruel.  The King came early next morning to see the Dauphine.  The emetic she took at about nine o’clock had little effect.  The day passed in symptoms each more sad than the other; consciousness only at rare intervals.  All at once towards evening, the whole chamber fell into dismay.  A number of people were allowed to enter although the King was there.  Just before she expired he left, mounted into his coach at the foot of the grand staircase, and with Madame de Maintenon and Madame de Caylus went away to Marly.  They were both in the most bitter grief, and had not the courage to go to the Dauphin.  Upon arriving at Marly the King supped in his own room; and passed a short time with M. d’Orleans and his natural children.  M. le Duc de Berry, entirely occupied with his affliction, which was great and real, had remained at Versailles with Madame la Duchesse de Berry, who, transported with joy upon seeing herself delivered from a powerful rival, to whom, however, she owed all, made her face do duty for her heart.

Monseigneur le Dauphin, ill and agitated by the most bitter grief, kept his chamber; but on Saturday morning the 13th, being pressed to go to Marly to avoid the horror of the noise overhead where the Dauphine was lying dead, he set out for that place at seven o’clock in the morning.  Shortly after arriving he heard mass in the chapel, and thence was carried in a chair to the window of one of his rooms.  Madame de Maintenon came to see him there afterwards; the anguish of the interview was speedily too much for her, and she went away.  Early in the morning I went uninvited to see M. le Dauphin.  He showed me that he perceived this with an air of gentleness and of affection which penetrated me.  But I was terrified with his looks, constrained, fixed and with something wild about them, with the change in his face and with the marks there, livid rather than red, that I observed in good number and large; marks observed by the others also.  The Dauphin was standing.  In a few minutes he was apprised that the King had awaked.  The tears that he had restrained, now rolled from his eyes; he turned round at the news but said nothing, remaining stock still.  His three attendants proposed