Towards the close of the page he compressed the letters, and avoided interlineations.

The last words were close to the edge of the paper; he seemed to regret being obliged to begin another page.

He was methodical and analytical; he divided what he wrote into chapters and sections.

He had extracted from the works of Nicole and Fenelon, his favourite authors, three or four hundred concise and sententious phrases; these he had classed according to subject, and formed a work of them in the style of Montesquieu.

To this treatise he had given the following general title: "Of Moderate Monarchy" (De la Monarchie temperee), with chapters entitled, "Of the Person of the Prince;" "Of the Authority of Bodies in the State;" "Of the Character of the Executive Functions of the Monarchy." Had he been able to carry into effect all the grand precepts he had observed in Fenelon, Louis XVI.