The Project Gutenberg Historic Court Memoirs

ng Casimir.-One Is Nev

to Get Himself Mad

om he had been made private secretary. Slanderers or impostors had persuaded this young coxcomb that Casimir, the King of Poland, whilst dwelling in Paris in the qual

and it seemed to him that his position with the Queen, Maria Theresa, was a great injustice of fortune; he thought, neve

r, or hardly ever, in her own hand. One day, whilst handling all this correspondence for the pr

rom one end to the othe

e Queen had the extrem

old liaison with the r

ty begged the prince to

rank of duke for so

m a brevet as duke for young Brisacier. Our King, who did not throw duchies at people's heads, read and re-read the strange missive with astonishment and suspicion. He wrote in his tu

d have been lost on this occasion; but there was nothing to excite suspicion. The King, no

l quite satisfied with young Bri

a little light, a little absent; but,

the King of Poland, instead of

e not written to him since I con

is matter, since I have your last letter in

tter with attention; her

ority," she said. "Brisacier alone can b

rdered him to prison, wishing to frighten him for a punishment, and at the end of

speak further to the King of the hopes which he had held out to me; moreover, the things w