10 RENEE.

their teachers and servants in
a quiet palace away from the
city, where she sometimes
went to visit them.
 Thus, you see, Renee's moth-
er, being full of the gayeties
and the splendor of the court,
and the king, their father,
busy in feasting and hunting,
Renee was left with her sister
Claude for her only near friend.
 You can imagine these two
lonesome little princesses, go-