Only lately he caused M.Arnaud to be informed that he did not approve of the meetings at his house; that there is no objection to his seeing all sorts of people indifferently like everybody else, but why should certain persons always be found in his rooms and such an intimate association among these gentlemen ?...

The King does not want any rallying point; a headless assemblage in a State is always dangerous."-- Ibid., p.33: "The reputation of this establishment was too great.

People were anxious to put their children in it.

Persons of rank sent theirs there.

Everybody expressed satisfaction with it.