Mark was there, celebrating another executive placement.

The temporary positions used to outnumber the permanent placements; at present the reverse is true.

A few months afterwards the states-general, assembling first at Orleans and afterwards at Pontoise, ratified this declaration by recognizing the placement of "the young King Charles IX.'s guardianship in the hands of Catherine de' Medici, his mother, together with the principal direction of affairs, but without the title of regent."