France. In his answer to this

Ributions came the blood-tax. The Marquise Philippine's son, sixteen
years old, was ordered to join General Berthier's corps, and to provide
him with L10 pocket money she sold what till then she had religiously
kept, a silver holy water stoup, which belonged to her saintly ancestor,
Francois de Sales. The last sacrifices, imposed not in the name of the
country, but to the advantage of an insatiable invader, were not likely
to inspire the old nobility of Piedmont with much love for the new order
of things, nor was love the feeling with which the Marquise regarded it,
but she had the insight to see what few of her class perceived, that the
hour of day cannot be turned back; the future could not be as the past
had been. When Prince Camillo Borghese was appointed governor of
Piedmont (on account of his being the husband of Napoleon's sister, the
beautiful Pauline Bonaparte, who was the original of Canova's Venus),
the Marquise Philippine was commanded to accept the post of _dame
d'honneur_ to the Princess. A refusal would have meant the ruin of both
the Cavours and her own kin, the De Sales, whose estates in Savoy were
already confiscated. She bowed to necessity, and in a position whi

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