'What's that ?' said Landsmath, angrily; 'has your Majesty been procuring the certificate of my baptism ?'--'There it is, you see, Landsmath,' said the King.

'Well, Sire, hide it as fast as you can; a prince entrusted with the happiness of twenty-five millions of people ought not wilfully to hurt the feelings of a single individual.' "The King learned that Landsmath had lost his confessor, a missionary priest of the parish of Notre-Dame.

It was the custom of the Lazarists to expose their dead with the face uncovered.

Louis XV.

wished to try his equerry's firmness.