Those Court-fellows, with their red heels and delicate nerves, make very bad soldiers.

Saxe often told me, In his Flanders Campaigns the Courtiers gave him more trouble than did Cumberland.' Talked of Marechal Richelieu; of Louis XIV., whose apology he skilfully made.

Blamed, however, the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.

Great attachment of the 'Protestant Refugees' to France and its King.

'Would you believe it ?' said he: 'Under Louis XIV.