You must know that M.Colbert is in such a rage that there is apprehension of some atrocity and injustice which will drive us all to despair.

If it were not for that, my poor dear sir, in the position in which we now are, we might hope to see our friend, although very unfortunate, at any rate with his life safe, which is a great matter." "Pray much to your God and entreat your judges," was the message sent to Mesdames Fouquet by the queen-Snother, "for, so far as the king is concerned, there is nothing to be expected." "If he is sentenced, I shall leave him to die," proclaimed Louis XIV.

Fouquet was not sentenced; the court declared for the view of Oliver d'Ormesson.

"Praise God, sir, and thank Him," wrote Madame de Sevigne, on the 20th of December, 1664, "our poor friend is saved; it was thirteen for M.
d'Ormesson's summing-up, and nine for Sainte-He1ene's.

It will be a long while before I recover from my joy; it is really too overwhelming; I can hardly restrain it.