His memory retained an infinite number of names and situations.

He remembered quantities and numbers wonderfully.

One day an account was presented to him in which the minister had ranked among the expenses an item inserted in the account of the preceding year.

"There is a double charge," said the King; "bring me last year's account, and I will show it yet there." When the King was perfectly master of the details of any matter, and saw injustice, he was obdurate even to harshness.

Then he would be obeyed instantly, in order to be sure that he was obeyed.
But in important affairs of state the man of will was not to be found.
Louis XVI.