Two of his Daughters, eldest and youngest, are alive still; the middle one had a sad fate long ago.

She married, in 1711, Alexius the Czarowitz of Peter the Great: foolish Czarowitz, miserable and making others miserable, broke her heart by ill conduct, ill usage, in four years; so that she died; leaving him only a poor small Peter II., who is now dead too, and that matter ended all but the memory of it.

Some accounts bear, that she did not die; that she only pretended it, and ran and left her intolerable Czarowitz.

That she wedded, at Paris, in deep obscurity, an Officer just setting out for Louisiana; lived many years there as a thrifty soldier's wife; returned to Paris with her Officer reduced to half-pay; and told him--or told some select Official person after him, under seven-fold oath, being then a widow and necessitous--her sublime secret.

Sublime secret, which came thus to be known to a supremely select circle at Paris; and was published in Books, where one still reads it.