Age now 56 .-- Hubner, t.
97; _Histoire de Stanislas I., Roi de Pologlne_ (English Translation, London, 1741), pp.

96-126; &c.] "Poor man, he has been living in Zweibruck, in Weissenburg and such places, in that Debatable French-German region,--which the French are more and more getting stolen to themselves, in late centuries:--generally on the outskirts of France he lives; having now connections of the highest quality with France.

He has had fine Country-houses in that Zweibruck (TWO-BRIDGE, Deux-Ponts) region; had always the ghost of a Court there; plenty of money,--a sinecure Country-gentleman life;--and no complaints have been heard from him.
Charles XII., as proprietor of Deux-Ponts, had first of all sent him into those parts for refuge; and in general, easy days have been the lot of Stanislaus there.
"Nor has History spoken of him since, except on one small occasion: when the French Politician Gentlemen, at a certain crisis of their game, chose a Daughter of his to be Wife for young Louis XV., and bring royal progeny, of which they were scarce.

This was in 1724-1725; Duc de Bourbon, and other Politicians male and female, finding that the best move.

A thing wonderful to the then Gazetteers, for nine days; but not now worth much talk.