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New Zealand Tablet, Volume X, Issue 510, 19 January 1883, Page 23

A correspondent from Paris writes : " Passing along the Rue de Courcelles at an early hour one Sunday morning recently, I met a lady, veiled and in the deepest mourning, with aparoissien in her hand. She had evidently just come from early service at the adjoining Church of St. Philippe dv Roule. I caught but a glance of her veiled face as she passed ; but, though much changed, it was not to be mistaken. It was that' of the Empress Eugenic. She has been stayiug with the Due dv Mouchy at his country seat, and was return* ing, I presume, after early Mass, to his town residence not far on, in the Pare de Montceau, to which she had come up previous tojher departure for England. It was a stiking illustration of the vicissitudes of human fortunes to sei one whose slightest appearance used, in former days to create so great a sensation, and who was wont to play so ' conspicuous a part here, walking solitary, unnoticed, and all but unknown, through the streets of her former capital.