Note 70 — DR. CORBET’S JOURNEY INTO FRANCE.
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Louis the XIIIth, for no superior virtues surnamed “Le Juste.” I have seen it somewhere observed that he chose his ministers for extraordinary reasons: Richlieu, because he could not govern his kingdom without him; Des Noyers, for psalm-singing; and le duc de Zuynes, for being an expert bird-catcher.
The satire of Corbet seems to justify the remark.
He was born 1601; married Anne of Austria 1615; and died at St. Germain’s 1643.