The charity of the pious Princess was inexhaustible.  Almost all her revenue was expended in alms.  She would not have receipts signed by those to whom she distributed relief.  “The duty of givers,” she said, “is to forget their gifts and the names of those who receive them; it is for those who receive to remember.”  Nor did she ever ask the political opinions of those she relieved.  To be unfortunate, sufficed to excite her interest.  One day Sister Rosalie, charged by the Princess with paying a pension to a man whose ill conduct she had discovered, thought it her duty to notify the benefactress, and suspend the succor.  “My sister,” replied the Dauphiness, “continue to pay this man his pension.  We must be charitable to the good that they may persevere, and to the bad that they may become better.”  Sunday, when the Princess did no work, she passed the evening in detaching the wax seals from letters and envelopes.  This wax, converted into sticks, produced one thousand francs a year, which she sent to a poor family.  She gave much, but only to Frenchmen and Frenchwomen.  She replied to every demand for aid for foreigners that she was sorry not to comply with the request, but she should feel that she was doing an injustice to give to others while there was a single Frenchman in need.  On each anniversary of mourning she doubled her alms.

The existence of the Dauphiness at the Tuileries passed with extreme regularity.  A very early riser, like her husband, she made her toilet herself, having learned to help herself in her captivity in the Temple.  She used to breakfast at six o’clock, and at seven daily attended the first Mass in the chapel of the Chateau.  There was a second at nine o’clock for the Dauphin, and a third at eleven for the King.  From eight to eleven she held audiences.  She retired at ten o’clock, and only prolonged the evening to eleven when, she visited the Duchess of Berry, for whom she had a great affection, and whose children she saw two or three times a day.  A devoted companion of Charles X., she always went with him to the various royal chateaux.  The Count of Puy maigre says in his Souvenirs:—­

“The Dauphiness having by her kindness accustomed me to speaking freely, I used this privilege without embarrassment, but always observing that measure which keeps a man of good society within just limits, equally careful not to put himself ridiculously at ease and not to be so abashed by exaggerated respect as to become insipid.  I have always thought that a princess no more than any other woman likes to be bored.  I talked much with her in the carriage, seeking to amuse the Princess with a few anecdotes, and I did not fear to discuss serious things with her, on which she expressed her self with real sagacity.  When she was accused of want of tact in the numerous receptions of which one had to undergo the monotony, it was often the fault of her immediate companions, who neglected to give her suitable information as to the various