XXVill BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR. 
dined moderately, but with good appetite. He went to bed as usual, and fell asleep. At about one 
o'clock in the morning, ‘his wife heard him move about and calling. She instantly rose from her bed, 
and ran to his apartment. He was still struggling on the floor, when she entered his room; but, on 
reaching him, she found that he had breathed his last. Physicians were called in immediately, but 
all in vain, life was totally extinct. He died at the age of eighty-five years. 
Michaux left no issue. He had lived single to an advanced age, when quite suddenly, he became 
tired of celibacy, and changed abruptly his condition, by marrying a relative of his, who, for a long 
time, had been the manager of his house, his attendant in sickness and companion in his solitude. 
They lived most happily together, and at his death, he left her a comfortable provision for the remain- 
der of her life. Mr. Michaux was in easy circumstances; but by no means rich. To his title of Che- 
valier de la Légion d’Honneur, he added, those of Correspondent of the French Institute, of Member 
of the American Philosophical Society, of the Central Society of Agriculture of Paris, of the Society 
of Agriculture and Arts of Boston, &c., &c. 
