222 MEMOIRS OF THE DUKE OF SAINT-SIMON.

Dauphin was afterwards carried from Marly to Versailles, and
placed by the side of Madame la Dauphine on the same estrade.

On Tuesday, the 23rd February, the two bodies were taken
from Versailles to St. De'nis in the same chariot. The pro-
cession began to enter Paris by the Porte St. Honord at two
o'clock in the morning, and arrived between seven and eight
o'clock in the morning at St. De'nis. There was great order in
Paris, and no confusion.

On Tuesday, the 8th March, Monseigneur le Due de Bretagne,
eldest son of Monsieur le Dauphin, who had succeeded to the
name and rank of his father, being then only five years and
some months old, and who had been seized with measles within
a few days, expired, in spite of all the remedies given him.
His brother, M. le Due d'Anjou, who still sucked, was taken ill
at the same time, but thanks to the care of the Duchesse de-
Ventadour, whom in after life he never forgot, and who ad-
ministered an antidote, escaped, and is now King.

Thus three Dauphins died in less than a year, and father,
mother, and eldest son in twenty-four days! On Wednesday,
the 9th of March, the corpse of the little Dauphin was opened
at night, and without any ceremony his heart was taken to the
Val de Griice, his body to St. De'nis, and placed by the side of
those of his father and mother. M. le Due d'Anjou, now sole
remaining child, succeeded to the title and to the rank of
Dauphin.

I have said that the bodies of the Dauphin and the Dauphine
were opened in presence of all the faculty. The report made
upon the opening of the latter was not consolatory. Only one
of the doctors declared there were no signs of poison; the rest
were of the opposite opinion. When the body of the Dauphin
was opened, everybody was terrified. His viscera were all dis-
solved; his heart had no consistency; its substance flowed
through the hands of those who tried to hold it; an intolerable-
odour, too, filled the apartment. The majority of the doctors
declared they saw in all this the effect of a very subtle and
very violent poison, which had consumed all the interior of the
body, like a burning fire. As before, there was one of their