I well know that your destiny is fulfilled, and that mine has all the attractiveness of a new romance. Nevertheless, you must be more communicative if you expect to be continued in office as my confidant.
Embrace for me your dear little ones, whom I insist upon regarding as your best counsellors at the prefecture, and tell my goddaughter, Irene, to kiss you for me.
IRENE DE CHATEAUDUN.
VIII.
EDGAR DE MEILHAN
to the
PRINCE DE MONBERT,
Saint Dominique street, Paris.