On the personal habits of the Czar see the Memoirs of the Margravine of Bayreuth.] [Footnote 11: It is worth while to transcribe the words of the engagement which Lewis, a chivalrous and a devout prince, violated without the smallest scruple.

"Nous, Louis, par la grace de Dieu, Roi tres Chretien de France et de Navarre, promettons pour notre honneur, en foi et parole de Roi, jurons sue la croix, les saints Evangiles, et les canons de la Messe, que nous avons touches, que nous observerons et accomplirons entierement de bonne foi tous et chacun des points et articles contenus au traite de paix, renonciation, et amitie."] [Footnote 12: George Psalmanazar's account of the state of the south of France at this time is curious.

On the high road near Lyons he frequently passed corpses fastened to posts.

"These," he says, "were the bodies of highwaymen, or rather of soldiers, sailors, mariners and even galley slaves, disbanded after the peace of Reswick, who, having neither home nor occupation, used to infest the roads in troops, plunder towns and villages, and, when taken, were hanged at the county town by dozens, or even scores sometimes, after which their bodies were thus exposed along the highway in terrorem."] [Footnote 13: "Il est de bonne foi dans tout ce qu'il fait.

Son procede est droit et sincere." Tallard to Lewis, July 3.