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DIARY AND CORRESPONDENCE OF
MR. SAVILE[1] TO MR. SIDNEY.
Paris, August 28th,—79.
I was at St. Germains the last post day, and am just now going to Fontainbleau, which are the reasons why I shall write short now. This King and Court went thither on Saturday, and Thursday next will be the ceremony of the marriage, which will be in every thing else splendid to the same degree of my being in clothes of two hundred pistoles. This may make you laugh, but it makes me cry, and lament that I am not in the modest garb of the head of my family, a plain band.
The last news-book tells you of the death of the Cardinal de Retz; and the next will tell you, that the Princess Sophia, known by the name of Duchess of Osnaburgh, is arrived at Maubuisson, with her sister: where Madame immediately went
- ↑ Ambassador at Paris. The marriage he alludes to in this letter was that of Marie Louise d'Orleans, the daughter of Philip of Orleans, whom the Marquis de Los Balbazos came to demand in the name of his master, the King of Spain, "Cet Ambassadeur fit son entrée publique à Paris le 11 de Juin, et reçut ensuite son audience du Roi à St. Germain en Laye avec les cérémonies accoutumées. Ayant obtenu sa demande, le mariage fut célébré au mois d'Aout dans la grande chapelle du château, où le Cardinal de Bouillon en fit la bénédiction. Le Roi et la Reine et toute la Cour y assisterent, et la fête dura plusieurs jours."—Mezeray's Hist. de France, iv. 400.
