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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
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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As for me, I can find no other reason than this:
he is like a card-player with a miserable partner, who plumes
himself on being very clever, and in that situation he can
only await the end of the game impatiently; scarcely will he
hold his own cards in his hand. Poor Bachelier, who is in
the secret of everything, talks less than ever, even to his best
friends; but he is often seen to be furious, desperate at the
state of things, writhing his arms at what he sees and hears.
He has made H——— write to me that if, in my present dis-
tress, I need money, he can procure for me as much as I
wish. I have answered, with many thanks, that in spite of
the cardinal and his seizure of my income, I have enough to
go on with until next Easter. It is certain that this offer
came from high places, from the master of all; which puts
my affairs in a smiling condition.
The King of Prussia is attracting the greatest praise for
his behaviour during the few weeks that have elapsed since
his father's death. God grant that he may become an object
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Pesne

Frederick the Great

1740] THE MARQUIS D'ARGENSON. 233

of emulation to our king, and that a monarch of twenty-
eight years of age may inspire one of thirty with the dutie
of royalty and the glory of working himself. While he was
still only the prince-royal, King Frederick wrote memorials
on the interests of princes; they have been in the hands of
Mme. du Chatelet, who is not too discreet; she has shown
them to friends, who have shown them to others.
People say that the ecliptic leans more this year towards
the equator, and if it continues to turn in that way, we
shall, in a few years, have the same climate in France that
they have in Sweden. We learn that in Rome, and espe-
cially in Naples there has been unprecedented cold last
winter, which continued into spring. Here we are now in
midsummer and we have fires all the time; in the middle
of the day the sun is hot, but morning and evening one dies
of cold. The wind is due north; hence dryness of the
chest and stoppage of perspiration,, which are causing every-
where dangerous illnesses.

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