"My children," said she, "and especially you, my son, know that this M.de Suffrein.

We are all under the greatest obligations to him.

Look well at him, and ever remember his name.

It is one of the first that all my children must learn to pronounce, and one which they must never forgot.[13]" She was acting up to her mother's example, than whom no sovereign had better known how to give their due honor to bravery and loyalty.

Such a queen deserved to have faithful friends; and Suffrein was a man who, had his life been spared, might, like the Marquis de Bouille, have shown that even in France the feelings of chivalry and devotion to kings and ladies were not yet extinguished.