On the 26th he called to his bedside all those of the court who had the entry.

"Gentlemen," he said to them, "I ask your pardon for the bad example I have set you.

I have to thank you much for the way in which you have served me, and for the attachment and fidelity you have always shown me.

I am very sorry not to have done for you what I should have liked to do.

The bad times are the cause of that.