"Maurice Lelandais,
"aged 9½ years,
"living with his family, Faubourg Bizienne,
"Guérande (Loire-Inférieure)."
Another schoolboy:
"Verviers, 3 September.
"Great King of Persia in France, Sir,—
"I have read in the paper that you are very rich and have lots of gold.
"My father promised to give me a gold watch for my first communion next year, if I worked hard at school.
"I did study, Sir, for I was second and the first is thirteen years old and I am only eleven and a half. To prove it to you, here is my prize-list. Now, when I ask if I shall have my watch, my father answers that he has no money and he wants it all for bread. It is not right, Sir, to deceive me like that. But I hope that you will give me what they refuse. Do me that great pleasure. I will pray for you.