Note 337 — Chapter IV · 1644 to 1649. (continued 2)

Charles de Paris, Count de Saint-Paul, was at first destined for the Church. There is a charming portrait of him, by Nanteuil, after Ferdinand, which represents him, at the age of eleven years, in 1660, with an abbé’s cross, and this inscription upon the border: Messire Charles Paris d’Orléans, Count de Saint-Paul, Abbé de St.-Remi de Reims, etc. It is impossible to find a more graceful creature.