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Updated: May 17, 2025
Bautru, a celebrated French wit, being in Spain, went to visit the famous library of the Escurial, where he found a very ignorant librarian. The King of Spain asked him his opinion of it. "It is an admirable one, indeed," said he; "but your majesty should give the man who has the care of it the administration of your finances." "Wherefore?" asked the king.
In a word, they expected wonders from her; and Bautru used to say she had already worked a miracle because the most devout had forgotten her coquetry. The Duc d'Orleans, who made a show as if he would have disputed the Regency with the Queen, was contented to be Lieutenant-General of the Kingdom.
I shall get the blame; 'cela se concoit'. 'Young Harrington goes the day after to-morrow. Thought it better not to pack him off in a hurry. 'And just before the pic-nic; no, certainly. I suppose it would look odd. 'How are we to get rid of the Countess? 'Eh? This Bautru is amusing, Franks; but he's nothing to Vandy. 'Homme incomparable! On the whole I find Menage rather dull.
I shall get the blame; 'cela se concoit'. 'Young Harrington goes the day after to-morrow. Thought it better not to pack him off in a hurry. 'And just before the pic-nic; no, certainly. I suppose it would look odd. 'How are we to get rid of the Countess? 'Eh? This Bautru is amusing, Franks; but he's nothing to Vandy. 'Homme incomparable! On the whole I find Menage rather dull.
In a word, they expected wonders from her; and Bautru used to say she had already worked a miracle because the most devout had forgotten her coquetry. The Duc d'Orleans, who made a show as if he would have disputed the Regency with the Queen, was contented to be Lieutenant-General of the Kingdom.
"Everybody knows in what plight you were, brother, and whether you could have done anything else," replied the king. "What think you, gentlemen, was it that lost the Duke of Montmorency his head?" said Cardinal Zapata to Bautru and Barrault, envoys of France, whom he met in the antechamber of the King of Spain. "His crimes," replied Bautru.
In a word, they expected wonders from her; and Bautru used to say she had already worked a miracle because the most devout had forgotten her coquetry. The Duc d'Orleans, who made a show as if he would have disputed the Regency with the Queen, was contented to be Lieutenant-General of the Kingdom.
"Because," replied Bautru, "the man never touches the treasure that is confided to him."
A Fox-Commerce is on foot, and a regular Beer-Scandal." "Shall we go in, Flemming?" "Certainly. I should like to see how these things are managed in Heidelberg. You are a Baron, and I am a stranger. It is of no consequence what you and I do, as the king's fool Angeli said to the poet Bautru, urging him to put on his hat at the royal dinner-table."
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