The Duc d'Angouleme, meeting his father at the entrance of the Dauphin's apartment, said to him, "Oh, papa! how little my cousin is!"-- "The day will come when you will think him great enough, my dear," answered the Prince, almost involuntarily .-- [Eldest son of the Comte d'Artois, and till the birth of the Dauphin with near prospects of the succession.] The birth of the Dauphin appeared to give joy to all classes.

Men stopped one another in the streets, spoke without being acquainted, and those who were acquainted embraced each other.

In the birth of a legitimate heir to the sovereign every man beholds a pledge of prosperity and tranquillity.
[M.

Merard de Saint Just made a quatrain on the birth of the Dauphin to the following effect: "This infant Prince our hopes are centred in, will doubtless make us happy, rich, and free; And since with somebody he must begin, My fervent prayer is--that it may be me!" -- NOTE BY THE EDITOR.] The rejoicings were splendid and ingenious.

The artificers and tradesmen of Paris spent considerable sums in order to go to Versailles in a body, with their various insignia.