_Marvellous, if true._--
"This same Duc de Lauragnois had a wife to whom he was tenderly
attached. She died of consumption. Her remains were not interred; but
were, by some chemical process, reduced to a sort of small stone, which
was set in a ring which the Duke always wore on his finger. After this,
who will say that the eighteenth century was not a romantic
age?"--_Memoirs of the Empress Josephine_, vol. ii. p. 162.: London,
1829.