An Ursulan nun of Blois is said to have predicted
in 1808 great troubles for France and for Blois both in 1848 and in 1870. In 1848 these troubles actually came. For 1870, the prophecy ran that the grands malheurs were to begin in the middle of July and before the vintage. They were specially to affect Paris. There was to be great fighting and great loss of life. "The time will be short, for the women will prepare the vintages, though the men will return to complete the work" (hardly, we think, —it is the 15th October already). No news will be obtained except through private letters. Presently three couriers will arrive at Blois, of whom the first will bring tidings that all is lost (that might have happened perhaps after the storming of Orleans on last Monday), "the next will be in too great a hurry to stop," (he may, perhaps, be in a balloon), and the third will come "by fire and water" (? steam), and will bring news of the "Saviour accorded to France." "The Prince will not be there, they will go and seek him elsewhere." The Prince must be very quick. The good man's time is very nearly up, and there is little sign of him as yet.
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