SOS MEMOIRS OF THE DUKE OF SAINT-SIMON".

well! then, Madame, it is done; come what may of it, I shall
he no longer tormented."

Words such as these so expressive of the extreme violence
suffered by the King, of his long and obstinate battle before
surrendering, of his vexation, and uneasiness, demand the
clearest proofs. I had them from people who heard them, and
would not advance them unless I were perfectly persuaded of
their exactness.

As soon as the Chief President and the Attorney-General
returned to Paris, they sent for some workmen, whom they
led into a tower of the Palace of Justice, behind the Buvette, or
drinking-place of the grand chamber and the cabinet of the
Chief-President. They had a big hole made in the wall of this
tower, which is very thick, deposited the testament there,
closed up the opening with an iron door, put an iron grating
by way of second door, and then walled all up together. The
door and the grating each had three locks, the same for both ;
and a different key for each of the three, which consequently
opened each of the two locks, the one in the door and the one
in the grating. The Chief-President kept one key, the
Attorney-General another, and the Chief Greffier of the Parlia-
ment the third. The Parliament was assembled and the Chief-
President flattered the members as best he might upon the con-
fidence shown them in entrusting them with this deposit.

At the same time was presented to the Parliament an edict
that the Chief-President and the Attorney-General had received
from the hand of the Chancellor at Versailles the same morning
the King had given them his will, and the edict was registered.
It was very short. It declared that the packet committed to
the Chief-President and to the Attorney-General contained the
will of the King, by which he had provided for the protection
and guardianship of the young King, and had chosen a Eegency
council, the dispositions of which for good reasons he had not
wished to publish; that he wished this deposit should be pre-
served during his life in the registry of the Parliament, and
that at the moment when it should please God to call him from
the world, all the chambers of the Parliament, all the princes