THREE:To escape from France was now both difficult and dangerous. The first to emigrate had been the Comte and Comtesse d��Artois and their children, the Prince de Cond��, Duc de Bourbon, Duc d��Enghien, Mlle. de Cond��, Prince de Lambesc, Mar��chaux de Broglie et de Castries, Duc de la Vauguyon, Comte de Vaudreuil, and a long string [292] of other great names��Mailly, Bourbon-Busset, d��Aligre, de Mirepoix, all the Polignac and Polastron, the Abb�� de Vermont, &c. They left at night under borrowed names. The Queen fainted when she parted from the Duchesse de Polignac, who was carried unconscious to the carriage by the Comte de Vaudreuil. [94]The news fell like a thunderbolt upon the little household. To Pauline it seemed as if this blow were a forecast of another still more terrible. It was long since she had heard anything of her mother, grandmother, and sisters, and she lived in a state of feverish suspense almost impossible to bear.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by the magic and know universe.