to be god-father to the child; the king consented and presented his god-son with a regiment; but the mother, who did not like the military career for her son, refused it.

The Marshal de Richelieu told me that he had never known the king laugh so heartily as when he heard of that singular refusal.
At the Duchess de Fulvie's I made the acquaintance of Mdlle.

Gaussin, who was called Lolotte.

She was the mistress of Lord Albemarle, the English ambassador, a witty and very generous nobleman.

One evening he complained of his mistress praising the beauty of the stars which were shining brightly over her head, saying that she ought to know he could not give them to her.