'You have lost your confessor, I hear,' said the King.

'Yes, Sire.'-- 'He will be exposed with his face bare ?'--'Such is the custom.'-- 'I command you to go and see him.'-- 'Sire, my confessor was my friend; it would be very painful to me.'-- 'No matter; I command you.'-- 'Are you really in earnest, Sire ?'--'Quite so.'-- 'It would be the first time in my life that I had disobeyed my sovereign's order.

I will go.' The next day the King at his levee, as soon as he perceived Landsmath, said, 'Have you done as I desired you, Landsmath ?'--'Undoubtedly, Sire.'-- 'Well, what did you see ?'--'Faith, I saw that your Majesty and I are no great shakes!' "At the death of Queen Maria Leczinska, M.Campan,--[Her father-in-law, afterwards secretary to Marie Antoinette.]--then an officer of the chamber, having performed several confidential duties, the King asked Madame Adelaide how he should reward him.

She requested him to create an office in his household of master of the wardrobe, with a salary of a thousand crowns.

'I will do so,' said the King; 'it will be an honourable title; but tell Campan not to add a single crown to his expenses, for you will see they will never pay him.' "Louis XV., by his dignified carriage, and the amiable yet majestic expression of his features, was worthy to succeed to Louis the Great.