The Count of Monte Cristo

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Villefort's door, and the coffin removed into it from the post-wagon.
The two bodies were to be interred in the cemetery of Pere-la-Chaise,
where M. de Villefort had long since had a tomb prepared for the
reception of his family. The remains of poor Renee were already
deposited there, and now, after ten years of separation, her father
and mother were to be reunited with her. The Parisians, always curious,
always affected by funereal display, looked on with religious silence
while the splendid procession accompanied to their last abode two of the
number of the old aristocracy--the greatest protectors of commerce and
sincere devotees to their principles. In one of the mourning-coaches
Beauchamp, Debray, and Chateau-Renaud were talking of the very sudden
death of the marchioness. "I saw Madame de Saint-Meran only last year at
Marseilles, when I was coming back from Algiers," said Chateau-Renaud;
"she looked like a woman destined to live to be a hundred years old,
from her apparent sound health and great activity of mind and body. How
old was she?"