You shall be my public, Monseigneur; your criticisms will be my reward: it is a price few Sovereigns can pay.

I am sure of your secrecy: your virtue and your intellect must be in proportion.

I should indeed consider it a precious happiness to come and pay my court to your Royal Highness! One travels to Rome to see paintings and ruins: a Prince such as you is a much more singular object; worthier of a long journey! But the friendship [divine Emilie's] which keeps me in this retirement does not permit my leaving it.

No doubt you think with Julian, that great and much calumniated man, who said, 'Friends should always be preferred to Kings.' "In whatever corner of the world I may end my life, be assured, Monseigneur, my wishes will continually be for you,--that is to say, for a whole People's happiness.

My heart will rank itself among your subjects; your glory will ever be dear to me.