It was an immense globe of copper, which was long preserved, though unfinished, in the Mazarine library.

Louis XVI.
invented and had executed under his own eyes the ingenious mechanism required for this globe .-- NOTE BY THE EDITOR.] Austere and rigid with regard to himself alone, the King observed the laws of the Church with scrupulous exactness.

He fasted and abstained throughout the whole of Lent.

He thought it right that the queen should not observe these customs with the same strictness.

Though sincerely pious, the spirit of the age had disposed his mind to toleration.