He pleased his mother by those trifling sympathizing attentions all women are glad to receive.

Anne of Austria, who would have been rejoiced to have had a daughter, almost found in this, her favorite son, the attentions, solicitude, and playful manners of a child of twelve years of age.

All the time he passed with his mother he employed in admiring her arms, in giving his opinion upon her cosmetics, and recipes for compounding essences, in which she was very particular; and then, too, he kissed her hands and cheeks in the most childlike and endearing manner, and had always some sweetmeats to offer her, or some new style of dress to recommend.

Anne of Austria loved the king, or rather the regal power in her eldest son; Louis XIV.

represented legitimacy by right divine.