Read the Journal of Heroard, that honest doctor, who day by day wrote down the details concerning the health of Louis XIII.

from his birth, and you will understand the tone of the conversation of Henry IV.

The jokes at a country wedding are trifles compared with this royal coarseness.

Le Moyen de Parvenir is nothing but a tissue and a mass of filth, and the too celebrated Cabinet Satyrique proves what, under Louis XIII., could be written, printed, and read.

The collection of songs formed by Clairambault shows that the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were no purer than the sixteenth.