After a fortnight's absence we saw him at Versailles again, resuming his usual functions.
The Queen could express herself with winning graciousness to persons who merited her praise.

When M.Loustonneau was appointed to the reversion of the post of first surgeon to the King, he came to make his acknowledgments.

He was much beloved by the poor, to whom he had chiefly devoted his talents, spending nearly thirty thousand francs a year on indigent sufferers.

The Queen replied to his thanks by saying: "You are satisfied, Monsieur; but I am far from being so with the inhabitants of Versailles.

On the news of your appointment the town should have been illuminated."-- "How so, Madame ?" asked the astonished surgeon, who was very modest.