Illness
She was chronically ill after her incarcerations, suffering from stomach pains, blisters, sores and abscesses. A Dr. Sautereau stayed at La Grange, and Dr. Lobinhes was on call from Paris. In 1807, during a trip to the Auvergne, Adrienne became ill; she became delirious but recovered enough on Christmas Eve to gather the family around her bed; her last words to Lafayette were: "Je suis toute à vous" ("I am all yours"). Given the purchase of saturne (lead), Burton concludes that lead poisoning was the cause of death. She was buried at the Picpus cemetery, after her death on 24 December 1807.
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