Lewis modestly placed himself on the left.
Nay, he was well pleased that, in his own palace, an outcast living on his bounty should assume the title of King of France, should, as King of France, quarter the lilies with the English lions, and should, as King of France, dress in violet on days of court mourning.
The demeanour of the French nobility on public occasions was absolutely regulated by their sovereign: but it was beyond even his power to prevent them from thinking freely, and from expressing what they thought, in private circles, with the keen and delicate wit characteristic of their nation and of their order.

Their opinion of Mary was favourable.

They found her person agreeable and her deportment dignified.

They respected her courage and her maternal affection; and they pitied her ill fortune.

But James they regarded with extreme contempt.