Madame de Boulainvilliers once saw from her terrace two pretty little peasant girls, each labouring under a heavy bundle of sticks.

The priest of the village, who was walking with her, told her that the children possessed some curious papers, and that he had no doubt they were descendants of a Valois, an illegitimate son of one of the princes of that name.
The family of Valois had long ceased to appear in the world.

Hereditary vices had gradually plunged them into the deepest misery.

I have heard that the last Valois then known occupied the estate called Gros Bois; that as he seldom came to Court, Louis XIII.

asked him what he was about that he remained so constantly in the country; and that this M.de Valois merely answered, "Sire, I only do there what I ought." It was shortly afterwards discovered that he was coining.
Neither the Queen herself nor any one near her ever had the slightest connection with the woman De Lamotte; and during her prosecution she could point out but one of the Queen's servants, named Desclos, a valet of the Queen's bedchamber, to whom she pre tended she had delivered Boehmer's necklace.