Your story, M.Malpertuis." "After I had been at the chateau ten days, we learnt that Eugene de Canaples had been sent to the Bastille.

The news came in a letter penned by his Eminence himself--a bitter, viperish letter, with a covert threat in every line.

The Chevalier's anger went white hot as he read the disappointed Cardinal's epistle.

His Eminence accused Eugene of being a frondeur; M.de Canaples, whose politics had grown sadly rusted in the country, asked me the meaning of the word.

I explained to him the petty squabbles between Court and Parliament, in consequence of the extortionate imposts and of Mazarin's avariciousness.