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ogy, I am much indebted to the kind offices of my friend, James 

 Gordon Clarke, Esq. 



When, in 1 600, Henry IV. was betrothed to Marie de Medicis, 

 Frontenac, grandfather of the governor of Canada, described as 

 " ung des plus antiens serviteurs du roy," was sent to Florence 

 by the king to carry his portrait to his affianced bride. Memoires 

 de Philippe Hurault, 448 (Petitot). 



The appointment of Frontenac to the post, esteemed as highly 

 honorable, of maitre (V hotel in the royal household, immediately 

 followed. There is a very curious book, the journal of Jean 

 Heroard, a physician charged with the care of the infant 

 Dauphin, afterwards Louis XIII., born in 1601. It records 

 every act of the future monarch : his screaming and kicking in 

 the arms of his nurses, his refusals to be washed and dressed, 

 his resistance when his hair was combed ; how he scratched his 

 governess, and called her names ; how he quarrelled with the 

 children of his father's mistresses, and at the age of four de- 

 clined to accept them as brothers and sisters ; how his mother 

 slighted him ; and how his father sometimes caressed, sometimes 

 teased, and sometimes corrected him with his own hand. The 

 details of the royal nursery are, we may add, astounding for 

 their grossness ; and the language and the manners amid which 

 the infant monarch grew up were worthy of the days of 

 Eabelais. 



Frontenac and his children appear frequently, and not un- 

 favorably, on the pages of this singular diary. Thus, when the 

 Dauphin was three years old, the king, being in bed, took him 

 and a young Frontenac of about the same age, set them before 

 him, and amused himself by making them rally each other in 

 their infantile lanoma^e. The infant Frontenac had a trick of 

 stuttering, which the Dauphin caught from him, and retained 

 for a long time. Again, at the age of five, the Dauphin, armed 

 with a little gun, played at soldier with two of the Frontenac 

 children in the hall at St. Germain. They assaulted a town, 

 the rampart being represented by a balustrade before the fire- 

 place. " The Dauphin," writes the journalist, " said that he 

 would be a musketeer, and yet he spoke sharply to the others 



