"'Regarding yourself, Sire, and the Rhine Campaign, you teach me nothing.

I know everything your Majesty did, and even what you said.
I could relate to you your Journeys to Strasburg, to Holland, and what passed in a certain Boat.

Apropos of this Rhine Campaign, one of our old Generals, whom I often set talking, as one reads an old Manuscript, has told me how astonished he was to see a young Prussian Officer, whom he did not know, answering a General of the late King, who had given out the order, Not to go a-foraging: "And I, Sir, I order you to go; our Army needs it; in short, I will have it so (JE LE VEUX)!--"' KING.

"'You look at me too much from the favorable side! Ask these Gentlemen about my humors and my caprices; they will tell you fine things of me.' "We got talking of some Anecdotes which are consigned to, or concealed in, certain obscure Books.

'I have been much amused, said I to the King, (with the big cargo of Books, true or false, written by French Refugees, which perhaps are unknown in France itself.' [Discourses a little on this subject.] KING.