When he reached Paris, chains were stretched along both sides of the streets to keep back the people who crowded them to contemplate in wonder and silent awe the despot, who a few days before, had hurried to the scaffold the youthful Cinq-Mars and his virtuous friend De Thou. This sight made a profound and lasting impression on the youthful Bossuet, who, being on that day fifteen years of age, arrived in Paris for the first time. It would be superfluous to cite this will in its entirety; we therefore only transcribe such passages as we feel will be of general interest, and these we give verbatim. It is dated Narbonne, 23d of May, 1642, and bears the signature of Pierre Falconis, notaire royal. It is contained in twelve quarto pages of very close printing. After two paragraphs of pious preamble and directions for his funeral, it proceeds to appoint to his _niessce_, Madame la Duchesse d’Eguillon (_sic_), all the cash in gold and silver he might possess at his decease, except a sum of 1,500,000 livres to be placed in the hands of his Majesty immediately on his death for a purpose he will explain farther on. It then goes on to declare that by contract he had given to the Crown “ ... Mon grand hostel que j’ai basti sous le nom de Palais Cardinal, ma chapelle d’or enrichie de diamans, mon buffet d’argent ciselé, et un grand diamant que j’ai acheté a Lopez, toutes lesquelles choses le roi a eu agréable par sa bonté d’accepter à ma trez humble et très instante supplication.... “Je supplie S. M. d’avoir agréables huit tentures de tapisserie et trois lits que je prie Madame la Duchesse d’Eguillon, ma niessce, et M. de Noyers de choisir entre mes meubles, pour servir à une partie de l’ameublement des principaux appartemens du dit Palais Cardinal. “Comme aussi je la supplie d’agréer la donation que je lui fais en outre de l’hostel qui est devant le Palais Cardinal, lequel j’ai acquis de feu M. le Commandeur de Sillery, pour au lieu d’icelui faire une place au devant du dit palais. “Je supplie aussi très humblement S. M. de trouver bon que l’on lui mette entre les mains la somme de 1,500,000 livres dont j’ay fait mention cy-dessus, de laquelle somme je puis dire avec vérité de m’estre servi très utilement aux plus grandes affaires de son estat, en sort que si je n’eusse eu cet argent à ma disposition quelques affaires qui ont bien succédé eussent apparemment mal réussi, ce qui me donne sujet d’oser supplier S. M. de destiner ceste somme que je lui laisse, pour employer en diverses occasions, qui ne peuvent souffrir la longueur des formes de finance.” He then orders all his property, whether _in esse_ or _in posse_, to be distributed as follows. The list supplies some idea of the shameless extent to which this man, who began life without any kind of fortune, enriched himself at the expense of the State.