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Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ower that soon afterwards she ended her life by poison. Fleurywas now the first minister of young Louis XV. (Fig. 17), who wasso averse to labor. The king was sure that this man would notserve the interests of a faction, or of the other branch of the dynastj,but only those of tlie sovereign and of the state. Fleury was esteemed as one of the most amiable and sociable ofmen until his seventy-third year; and at this age, when one com-monly withdraws, it was his fortune to be considered one of thewisest of men. From 1726 to 1742 everything wliich lie undertooksucceeded with him ; and still, when nearly ninety years of age, heretained a mind clear, keen, and skilful in business. Born in 1653,at Lodeve, Languedoc, Fleury had commended himself by his pietyto Queen Maria Theresa. Louis XIV. had little affection for him,and with reluctance a()pointed him bishop of the remote and poordiocese of Frejus. His conduct in his bishoj)ric was so beneficent 118 RESTORATION OF PEACE BY CARDINAL FLEURT.
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Vui. 17. — Louis XV., King of France. (From a copper-plate eiigiaviiig byN. de Larmessin.) and exemplary that he acquired for himself consideration : and evenLouis XIV., influenced by public opinion, on his deatlibed appointedhim teacher of his great-grandson. His gentle character and his TRE NEW GOVERNMENT. 119 indulgence, not wholl) free from calculation, made him dear to hisroyal pupil. He quietly awaited his time, and held himself alooffrom public affairs, till the period of Louiss independence and thefailm-es of Bourbon opened the way for him to a controlling position.In a short time he was invested with the cardinals purple. The aged minister was a man of learning, but with eyes openedto political relations, and with still unimpaired powers and refine-ment of intellect. By his age, liis priestly calling, and his inmostconviction, he was a lover of peace. The violent and abortive periodof novelties under the regency had, in the ej-es of the French people,once more restored to c

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