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How insolent you can be, you men in office, who sit glued to your chairs while we are dodging shot and shell! Come, Monsieur le Maitre des Requetes, allow us to glean in the field of which you can only have precarious possession from the moment when we evacuate it. The deuce is in it! We have a right to live!
The first Fronde was formed out of the débris of the Importants. It was composed of all the malcontents who made common cause with those members of the parliament who were irritated by the frequent bursal edicts, notably that which, in 1648, created twelve new appointments of maîtres de requêtes. And now what gave birth to the Fronde, or what sustained it?
He had been Maitre de Requetes, and afterwards Intendant of the Bourbonnais. He had gained no little reputation in the West Indies, as governor and lieutenant-general of Cayenne, which he recovered from the English, who had seized it, and whom he soon after defeated in a naval fight. La Barre was an old naval officer of rank, advanced to a post for which he proved himself notably unfit.
"You have my full permission, my dear Cuirassier, but you will not gain this much," and the young Maitre des Requetes put his polished thumb-nail under an upper tooth with a little mocking click. "Remember that I am unmarried," said the Colonel; "that my sword is my whole fortune; and that such a challenge is setting Tantalus down to a banquet which he will devour." "Prrr."
Pecoil, a very rich heiress, whose father was a 'maitre des requetes', and whose mother was daughter of Le Gendre, a very wealthy merchant of Rouen. The father of Mlle. Pecoil was a citizen of Lyons, a wholesale dealer, and extremely avaricious.
Never mention my name to her, or all will be undone.... You have got me an appointment as Maitre des Requetes well, get me instead some diplomatic post abroad, a consulship, and do not think of my marrying Amelie. Oh! do not be uneasy, I added, seeing him draw himself up, 'I will play my part to the end.
Pecoil, a very rich heiress, whose father was a 'maitre des requetes', and whose mother was daughter of Le Gendre, a very wealthy merchant of Rouen. The father of Mlle. Pecoil was a citizen of Lyons, a wholesale dealer, and extremely avaricious.
Next we have 'prudent homme Maître Jean Fave, maître des requêtes du roi Charles VII.: he, too, was present at the execution. Next appears upon the scene 'honnête personne Laurent Guesdon, clerk and advocate to the lay court of Rouen.
Pecoil, a very rich heiress, whose father was a 'maitre des requetes', and whose mother was daughter of Le Gendre, a very wealthy merchant of Rouen. The father of Mlle. Pecoil was a citizen of Lyons, a wholesale dealer, and extremely avaricious.
They were chosen from the class of maitres des requetes, and were therefore all lawyers and members of the Privy Council. Thus the unity of the administration in Versailles and the provinces was constantly maintained. The intendant had charge of the interests of the Catholic religion and worship, and the care of buildings devoted to religious purposes.
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