133, 120:" cited in PREUSS, iv.218.For date, see Rodenbeck, iii.

322, 323.] Except Mirabeau, about a year after this, Segur is the last distinguished French visitor.

French Correspondence the King has now little or none.

October gone a year, his D'Alembert, the last intellectual Frenchman he had a real esteem for, died.

Paris and France seem to be sinking into strange depths; less and less worth hearing of.
Now and then a straggling Note from Condorcet, Grimm or the like, are all he gets there.
That of the Furstenbund put a final check on Joseph's notions of making the Reich a reality; his reforms and ambitions had thenceforth to take other directions, and leave the poor old Reich at peace.