On the 24th of August he dined in bed, surrounded as usual by his courtiers; he had a difficulty in swallowing; for the first time, publicity was burdensome to him; he could not get on, and said to those who were there that he begged them to withdraw.

Meanwhile the drums and hautboys still went on playing beneath his window, and the twenty-four violins at his dinner.

In the evening, he was so ill that he asked for the sacraments.

There had been wrung from him a codicil which made the will still worse.

He, nevertheless, received the Duke of Orleans, to whom he commended the young king.