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THE SALPÊTRIÈRE. -TRUCKLE-BED AND PRISON FARE. -THE COUNT THREATENS THE FRENCH COURT.
"As soon as Madame de la Motte arrived at the Salpêtrière," remarks Madame Robin, the then superior general of the hospital, "she was taken to the registry where all our prisoners are enrolled before they are sent to their several prisons: she remained near three-quarters of an hour apparently without any knowledge of what passed-totally insensible. A little after she came to herself, I begged her to search her pockets and let me take her earrings. She presented to me her right ear; she could not speak, and she was so disfigured that her shape scarce appeared to be human, yet she seemed patient as a lamb going to the fold. The _huissiers_ then crammed her into the same hackney-coach, and conveyed her to the hall of the Salpêtrière. Before she entered the prison itself, she was taken extremely ill, and we thought she would never recover.