Charles de St. Denis, Sieur de St. Evremond, died in 1703, aged 95, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. His military and diplomatic career in France was closed in 1661, when his condemnations of Mazarin, although the Cardinal was then dead, obliged him to fly from the wrath of the French Court to Holland and afterwards to England, where Charles II granted him a pension of £300 a-year. At Charles's death the pension lapsed, and St. Evremond declined the post of cabinet secretary to James II. After the Revolution he had William III for friend, and when, at last, he was invited back, in his old age, to France, he chose to stay and die among his English friends. In a second volume of
Miscellany Essays by Monsieur de St. Evremont,
done into English by Mr. Brown (1694), an Essay
Of the Pleasure that Women take in their Beauty
ends (p. 135) with the thought quoted by Steele.
In
Don Sebastian, King of Portugal,
act I, says Muley Moloch, Emperor of Barbary,