de Montpensier, "and we had the twenty-four violins; he was as gay as if MM.

Cinq-Mars and De Thou had not tarried by the way.

I confess that I could not see him without thinking of them, and that in my joy I felt that his gave me a pang." The prisoners and exiles, by degrees, received their pardon; the Duke of Vendome, Bassompierre, and Marshal Vitry had been empowered to return to their castles, the Duchess of Chevreuse and the ex-keeper of the seals, Chateauneuf, were alone excepted from this favor.

"After the peace," said the declaration touching the regency, which the king got enregistered by the Parliament on the 23d of April.

The little dauphin, who had merely been sprinkled, had just received baptism in the chapel of the Castle of St.Germain.
The king asked him, next day, if he knew what his name was.