CHAPTER VThey hurried away just in time, crossed the Mont Cenis, which was covered with snow, and at the foot of which they were met by their nephew, the Comte d��Artois. The King of Sardinia, husband of their niece, [40] the eldest sister of Louis XVI. had sent four hundred soldiers to clear away the snow, and escorted by the Comte d��Artois they arrived safely at Turin where all the noblesse were assembled to receive them at the entrance of the royal palace. They arrived at Rome in April.Barras fled to Brussels; Tallien, his part played out and his power and position gone, returned to France, the last link broken between him and T��r��zia. He did not wish for a divorce, but he was obliged to consent to one. And he had himself been one of its most fervent advocates.Mme. de Noailles, to whom it was also necessary to speak of the proposed plan, was much perturbed.[146]<000005>