The young Duc de Hardimont happened to be at Aix in Savoy, whose waters he hoped would benefit his famous mare, Perichole, who had become wind-broken since the cold she had caught at the last Derby,and was finishing his breakfast while glancing over the morning paper, when he read the news of the disastrous engagement at Reichshoffen.

The scenery is picturesque on this route, and the whole road from Aix to Chambéry is aligned with remarkably fine large trees.

We got a second War Office pass sending us to Aix by way of Louvain, Tirlemont, and Liege.

"Watched several westbound loads go by until about two o'clock, when they made up a combination train consisting of Red Cross coaches and empty freight trucks going back to Aix for fresh loads of men and ammunition.

In 1783, the young Count de Mirabeau, pleading for the restitution of his conjugal rights, put the question to the judges at Aix before whom he was arguing, "Which of you, if he desired to consecrate a living personification of justice, and to embellish it with all the charms of beauty, would not set up the august image of our queen?" She and her husband might well have felt they were bound to act up to such a eulogy.

He, born at Aix on the 6th of August, 1715, died of his wounds, at Paris, in 1747.