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"But not for you to arrest my friends." "You take it back again, then?" "As far as that goes yes, sire." "My musketeers shall capture it, and the affair will be at an end." "Neither your musketeers, nor your whole army could take Belle-Isle," said Fouquet, coldly. "Belle-Isle is impregnable." The king became perfectly livid; a lightning flash seemed to dart from his eyes.
"That's the way," said the giant, not letting the rock fall again, but placing it upon its support. "Mordioux!" cried D'Artagnan, "I know but one man capable of such a feat of strength." "Hein!" cried the colossus, turning round. "Porthos!" murmured D'Artagnan, seized with stupor, "Porthos at Belle-Isle!"
Nor was he the only wit who frequented the Hôtel Kirkpatrick. Not only wits, but scholars like Maupertius, the two Bernouillis, many poets and literary men, Cardinal de Polignac and Marquis de Beauvau, soldiers like Marshal Count de Belle-Isle, his brother the Chevalier, the Prince de Soubise, the Prince de Clermont, and others, made Francezka's saloon shine.
"Good evening, M. d'Artagnan; we were speaking of Belle-Isle," said Fouquet, with that usage of society, and that perfect knowledge of the language of looks, which require half a lifetime thoroughly to acquire, and which some persons, notwithstanding all their study, never attain. "Of Belle-Ile-en-Mer! Ah!" said D'Artagnan. "It belongs to you, I believe, M. Fouquet?"
Madame de Pompadour would not present the memorial; he insisted, though she said to him, "You will rain yourself." The King cast his eyes over it, and said "'central point, that is to say himself, he wants to be Prime Minister." Madame tried to apologize for him, and said, "That expression might refer to the Marechal de Belle-Isle." "Is he not just about to be made Cardinal?" said the King.
"Without a moment's loss of time, our two privateers, and your own horses, were placed at the disposal of the officers; the keys of the principal mansion were handed over to them, so that they made up hunting-parties, and walking excursions with such ladies as are to be found in Belle-Isle; and such other as they are enabled to enlist from the neighborhood, who have no fear of sea-sickness."
Among the women, Marie Lloyd and Sophie Croizette, both friends of my childhood; the disagreeable Jouassain, who was nice only to me; and the adorable Marie Brohan, whose kindness delighted the soul, whose wit charmed the mind, and whose indifference rebuffed devotion. M. Perrin decided that I should make my debut in Mademoiselle de Belle-Isle, according to Sarcey's wish.
"That's the way," said the giant, not letting the rock fall again, but placing it upon its support. "Mordioux!" cried D'Artagnan, "I know but one man capable of such a feat of strength." "Hein!" cried the colossus, turning round. "Porthos!" murmured D'Artagnan, seized with stupor, "Porthos at Belle-Isle!"
"Count Belle-Isle, grandson of Fouquet," says M. d'Argenson, "had more wit than judgment, and more fire than force; but he aimed very high." He dreamed of revising the map of Europe, and of forming a zone of small states, destined to protect France against the designs of Austria.
Lascelles Wraxall, again, in Remarkable Adventures , says: 'Whatever truth there may be in Saint-Germain's travels in England and the East Indies, it is indubitable that, for from 1745 to 1755, he was a man of high position in Vienna, while in Paris he does not appear, according to Wraxall, till 1757, having been brought from Germany by the Maréchal de Belle-Isle, whose 'old boots, says Macallester the spy, Prince Charles freely damned, 'because they were always stuffed with projects. Now we hear of Saint-Germain, by that name, as resident, not in Vienna, but in London, at the very moment when Prince Charles, evading Cumberland, who lay with his army at Stone, in Staffordshire, marched to Derby.
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