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Title: Journal and memoirs
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Argenson, René-Louis de Voyer, marquis d', 1694-1757 Rathéry, E. J. B. (Edme Jacques Benoît), 1807-1875
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Publisher: New York : P.F. Collier
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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that the king was drunk when theymade him sign it; that he leads secretly a disreputable life;that he cannot live if it goes on much longer; that his moralsare growing more corrupt daily; I turn away from belief insuch rumours; I persuade myself that fear of his old precep-tor causes his Majesty an inertness and dread which havegiven him an appearance of these things, out of which he willrise on the death of this old man so execrable to France. (January 17.) The king has at last been to see the car-dinal, who is now at deaths door; he was there but a mo-ment; they counted the time as eleven minutes. The fearis universal that in that short moment the king may havebeen persuaded to make Cardinal de Tencin prime-minister. (January 30.) Cardinal de Fleury died yesterday at mid-day. Never was a death made more comic by songs, epi-grams and demonstrations. As soon as the death wasannounced to the king, his Majesty said, Messieurs, I amnow prime-minister! And he instantly sent for the former
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The Duchesse de Châteauroux. -
1742-1744)] THE MARQUIS D'ARGENSON. 313 Bishop of Mirepoix (Jean-François Boyer), the dauphins preceptor, and gave him the portfolio of benefices, which means the ministry and chief direction of the affairs of the Church in France. Certainly a more honest man could not have been chosen. Cardinal de Tencin and his party have had what is called a slap in the face, and there is talk now of sending that Eminence to govern his diocese of Lyon. The reputation of the king is hom*ly being restored in the public mind, and so rapidly that it may soon burst forth brilliantly, like that of Henri IV. Every one is applauding the first acts of this d^but; what will it be if other good selections of honest men in place of those who are odious follow ? What will it be if we see a good and solid peace this spring? (February 22.) The king works much and has heart in his business; it does not appear that his ministers govern him; they say this will happen and that

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