monsieur l'intendant des menus (plaisirs under

stood), My dear Chamberlain, i.c. you 'who are in sole charge of my private entertainments ; menus plaisirs almost corresponds idiomatically to pocketnioney. At the French court it was the name given to an important portion of the king's budget, somewhat akin to that in charge of the Lord Chamberlain, i.e. ail court cérémonies, /êtes, and theatricals.

8. à Fontainebleau, a splendid and very ancient palace (it was a royal résidence as far back as the tenth century) in the centre of the magnificent forest of that name, about 38 miles S.E. of Paris, the birthplace of Henry IL and Louis XIII. Louis XIY, signed there in 1685 the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and Napoléon L, vrho had detained in that palacePope Plus YII. (1812-13), abdicated there in favour of bis son (4th April 1814).

10. le plus grand de tous les grands d'Espagrne, the greatest of ail the grandees of Spain.

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