The diversions for the Duke of Lorraine are very well schemed; but"-- but what mortal can now care about them?
Close, and seal.
[Forster, iii.

160-162; _OEuvres de Frederic,_ xvi, 37-39.] As to this Duke of Lorraine just coming, he is Franz Stephan, a pleasant young man of twenty-five, son of that excellent Duke Leopold Joseph, whom young Lyttelton of Hagley was so taken with, while touring in those parts in the Congress-of-Soissons time.

Excellent Duke Leopold Joseph is since dead; and this Franz has succeeded to him,--what succession there was; for Lorraine as a Dukedom has its neck under the foot of France this great while, and is evidently not long for this world.

Old Fleury, men say, has his eye upon it.

And in fact it was, as we shall see, eaten up by Fleury within four years' time; and this Franz proved the last of all the Dukes there.