The Queen and Mazarin could not close their eyes to his devotion, and offered him, while the war was still going on, a marechal's baton, or the title of foreign prince.

But he refused both, and the offer was not renewed when the war ended.

These disturbances over, and Louis XIV.

being married, my father came again to Paris, where he had many friends.

He had married in 1644, and had had, as I have said, one only daughter.