Duchesse de Nemours

We’re coming back today to the sad event which has once again plunged into pain a family already sorely distressed by tragedy. As such, we owe them our sympathy, and it is with sadness and respect that, in publishing the portrait of the Duchess of Nemours, whose life seemed meant to be, if not happy, at least long and peaceful, we bow before this tomb to lay the expression of our grief.
On saturday, all the old friends of the family of Orleans gathered in the chapel of St. Ferdinand, in Neuilly, to attend the funeral service celebrated for the repose of the soul of S. A. R. the duchess of Nemours.
The precincts of the chapel were too small to hold all the people who came to this sad ceremony, and only the ladies were allowed inside, while the gentlemen had to stay in the courtyard, before the monument to the memory of the duke of Orleans.
Among the assistants were Messrs Duke Decazes, Bocher, Paul de Segur, Dupin the eldest, Prince Albert de Broglie, Paul Daru, the counts Vigier, duc de Montebello, general Rhuilières, Mallet, Hottinguer, Captain Jorez, the Rothschild barons, Guerard, Asseline , J. of Wailly, G. Guizot, Pierre and Paul de Rémusat, etc…
Among the writers and journalists, Messrs Jules Janin, Laya, A. Achard, E. Glorieux, d’Ornant, L. Forcade, etc…
Also there, was a host of former servants of the house of Orleans.
Two Masses were celebrated and met deep reverence.
 
Extract from L’Illustration, N° 770 on 28 November 1857.