The King inquired why they disapproved of the choice.

One of them answered that everybody must admit that Moliere had very bad taste; the King replied that many things might be found in Moliere contrary to fashion, but that it appeared to him difficult to point out any in bad taste?
[The King, having purchased the Chateau of Rambouillet from the Duc de Penthievre, amused himself with embellishing it.

I have seen a register entirely in his own handwriting, which proves that he possessed a great variety of information on the minutiae of various branches of knowledge.
In his accounts he would not omit an outlay of a franc.

His figures and letters, when he wished to write legibly, were small and very neat, but in general he wrote very ill.

He was so sparing of paper that he divided a sheet into eight, six, or four pieces, according to the length of what he had to write.