"No," said I shortly. "I did not know that I should want it this evening. You thought, perhaps, that I should take home the Controller-General? Did he come to your house _en polisson_?" (the fashionable name at the time for a person who drove his own carriage at Marly dressed as a coachman). Madame de Saint-James left me hastily, rang the bell, ordered her husband's carriage, and took the lawyer aside. "Monsieur de Robespierre, will you do me the favor of seeing Monsieur Marat home, for he is incapable of standing upright?" said she. "With pleasure, madame," replied Monsieur de Robespierre with an air of gallantry; "I wish you had ordered me to do something more difficult." PARIS, _January 1828_. NOTE. This is the song published by the Abbé de la Place in his collection of interesting fragments, in which may be found the dissertation alluded to. [It will be seen that it goes to the old tune of _Malbrouk s'en va-t-en guerre_.] THE DUC DE GUISE'S BURIAL. Qui veut ouïr chanson? (_Bis._) C'est du Grand Duc de Guise; Et bon bon bon bon, Di dan di dan don, C'est du Grand Duc de Guise! (This last line was spoken, no doubt, in a comic tone.) _Qui est mort et enterré._ Qui est mort et enterré. (_Bis._) Aux quatre coins du poêle, Et bon bon bon bon, Di dan di dan don, _Quatre gentilshomm's y avoit_. Quatre gentilshomm's y avoit. (_Bis._) L'un portoit son grand casque, Et bon, etc. _Et l'autre ses pistolets._ Et l'autre ses pistolets. (_Bis._) Et l'autre son épée, Et bon, etc. _Qui tant d'Hugu'nots a tués._ Qui tant d'Hugu'nots a tués. (_Bis._) Venoit le quatrième, Et bon, etc. _Qui étoit le plus dolent._ Qui étoit le plus dolent; (_Bis._) Après venoient les pages, Et bon, etc. _Et les valets de pied._ Et les valets de pied, (_Bis._) Avecque de grands crêpes, Et bon, etc. _Et des souliers cirés._ Et des souliers cirés. (_Bis._) Et des beaux bas d'estame, Et bon, etc. _Et des culottes de piau._ Et des culottes de piau. (_Bis._) La cérémonie faite, Et bon, etc., _Chacun s'alla coucher._ Chacun s'alla coucher: (_Bis._) Les uns avec leurs femmes, Et bon, etc. _Et les autres tout seuls._ The discovery of these curious verses seems to prove, to a certain extent, the guilt of Théodore de Bèze, who tried to mitigate the horror caused by this murder by turning it to ridicule. The principal merit of this song lay, it would appear, in the tune. GAMBARA _To Monsieur le Marquis de Belloy_