. Versailles and the court under Louis XIV. or a successor toMazarin; but Louis never wavered, and persevered in hisresolution for fifty-four years. In his Memoirs,1 designed for the instruction of Monsei-gneur, and prepared from his notes and under his eyes byPellisson in 1670, Louis reveals himself. It may happen,my son, he says, that you will begin to read these Memoirsat an age when one usually fears rather than loves work,being too glad to have escaped from subjection to teachersand masters, and to have no more fixed hours, no more longand uncertain application. Here I will only tell you
. Versailles and the court under Louis XIV. or a successor toMazarin; but Louis never wavered, and persevered in hisresolution for fifty-four years. In his Memoirs,1 designed for the instruction of Monsei-gneur, and prepared from his notes and under his eyes byPellisson in 1670, Louis reveals himself. It may happen,my son, he says, that you will begin to read these Memoirsat an age when one usually fears rather than loves work,being too glad to have escaped from subjection to teachersand masters, and to have no more fixed hours, no more longand uncertain application. Here I will only tell you that it isalways by work that one reigns, and that there is ingratitudeto God, injustice and tyranny to men, in desiring the onewithout the other. Those conditions of royalty, which maysometimes seem hard and vexatious to you, would appearpleasant and easy if it were a question of attaining them. 1 The original manuscripts were were published in 1806 by Treuttelconfided by Louis XVI, in 1786, to & Comte de Grimoard. They 180. Jean Baptiste Colbert His Method of Work ... I made it a rule to work twice a day, even after dinner,at the despatch of ordinary business, not failing to apply my-self at any other time to whatever might arise cannot tell you how fruitful I immediately found that reso-lution. I felt my mind and my courage elevated. I wasquite different. I discovered in myself that which I did notknow, and I reproached myself with joy for having been solong ignorant of it. The first sense of timidity that comeswith decision caused me pain, but it passed off in less than notime. It seemed to me then that I was, and was born to be,king. And in revealing the secret of his governing powerto his son, the king adds: I am aware that I diminish byso much the only, or almost the only, merit I can hope forin the world. The king held his councils, as he did everything else, withgreat regularity. At Versailles they met in his cabinet, butwhen he took medicine,
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