Lives of the last four princesses of the royal house of Stuart

1711.] VISIT TO THE EEMAINS OF KING JAMES. 367
dignity of her deportment, and won all hearts by the
sweetness of her manners. She enjoyed the chase with
all her heart, and was in at the death of the stag.
The Duchess de Lauzun gave an evening banquet to the
Dauphiness and the royal and distinguished party, in
which the Princess Louisa, her governess, the Countess
of Middleton, and her ladies of honour, were included.
She was in blooming health and gay spirits that day, yet
she made a point of leaving the banquet so early, with her
governess and little train, that she returned to Chaillot, to
gladden the heart of her anxious mother, at a quarter
to nine o'clock in the evening.*
On the Tuesday following the Queen took her young,
bright Louisa, to Versailles, to pay their compliments
to the King, and thank the Dauphiness for the pleasure
she had given her daughter. They then paid a round
of state visits to all the members of the royal family of
France, the Queen in her close widow's mourning, and the
Princess in full court costume.
Though Paris was full of the infection of the small-pox,
Louisa accompanied the Queen, her mother, with Lady
Middleton and the Duchess of Perth, to visit the church of
the English Benedictines, where the remains of King James
still remained unburied, in the aisle of St. Jacques, under a
black velvet canopy, surmounted by the crown of England.
To avoid the appearance of display, or attracting public
attention, they went in a hired coach. On one or two
occasions the coach of the unfortunate Queen of James,
had been recognized, and followed by crowds of persons
of all degrees, who, in their eagerness to gaze on the royal
widow and her young lovely daughter, had distressed them
by the vehemence of their sympathy. Popular super-
stition had invested the deceased king with the name
* Memorials of Mary Beatrice, in the Hotel de Soubise.