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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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stened to him, andresults may follow. (Tlie Due de Bichelieu.^) The Due de Eichelieu (sinceMar^chal de France) is the favourite of the king every timethat he takes the trouble to be so; but he is not content withthe most flattering familiarity with his master if he does notget out of it the increase he covets for his fortunes, espe-cially a ministry; he is possessed with a desire to enter theCoimcil. He governed for some months during the favour ofthe late Duchesse de Chateauroux; he had with his Majestyall the credit of that vicious negotiation, and all the shameof it with the public; he had to bear the risks and the dis-likes it brought him. 1 Mrae. de Chateauroux was his enemy; on the kings return from thecampaign in Flanders he sent M. de Maurepas to her with an order (wliichshe was awaiting) for her return to Court. In the act of receiving it shewas taken ill, and died within a few hours — Tr. ^ Louis-Fran9ois-Armand Duplessis, Due et Marechal de Richelieu;born 1096, died 1788.
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.^y^^^i^//Z€> yc/e^ Z^^ri^.a.c/ot^^r^ 1744-1747) THE MAKQUIS DARGENSON. 361 He now confines himself to the ambition of some daycommanding the armies; he hopes for this, and is preparingfor it more by presumption than by labour. The militaryfear this promotion; they all say they do not wish to beof his army; they accuse him of levity, precipitation, andheedlessness. Though he has personal merit, he places all his hopes onblind favour, — on the graces that please, on seduction andcharm, not on justice nor on the merit of his actions; he ex-aggerates the opinion we ought to have of the defects of themonarchy and the frailties of our century; he esteems whathe disdains, but he dissuades his friends from good intentionsand virtue; he is a misanthrope of the Court, which he hatesand follows. He possesses all the experience and sagacitynecessary to fathom men, but he reckons them more by theirfoibles than their good qualities; he studies the first andcasts the second aside as out of p

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