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Updated: June 16, 2025
With Monseigneur the Marechal de Belleisle principally; with the ambitious cupidities and baseless vanities of the French Court and Nation, as represented by Belleisle. George II.'s Spanish War, if you will examine, had a real necessity in it.
Going as Ambassador Extraordinary to the Germanic Diet, "to assist good neighbors, as a neighbor and Most Christian Majesty should, in choosing their new Kaiser to the best advantage:" that is the official color his mission is to have. Surely a proud mission; and Belleisle intends to execute it in a way that will surprise the Germanic Diet and mankind.
And shifts and whirls, accordingly, at a great rate, in these months and years; now on Maria Theresa's side, deluded by shadows from Vienna, and getting into Russian Partition-Treaties; anon tickled by Belleisle into the reverse posture; then again reversing.
... "Some time before the actual Bombardment, Fleury, seeing it inevitable, had ordered Belleisle to treat.
"VERSAILLES, 11th JULY. Extraordinary Council of State; Belleisle being there, home from Frankfurt, to take final orders, and get official fiat put upon his schemes. 'All the Princes of the Blood and all the Marechals of France attend; question is, How the War is to be, nay, Whether War is to be at all, so contingent is the French-Prussian Bargain, signed five weeks ago.
Belleisle will take another if he must; Kur-Sachsen, for example; any other, and all others, only not the Grand-Duke: that is a point already fixed with Belleisle, though he keeps it well in the background, and is careful not to hint it till the time come. O soul of honor, O first Nation of the Universe, was there ever such a subterfuge?
Friedrich might well think himself bewitched not to have gone for Cham and Furth, and the Passes of the Bohmer-Wald, according to his own notion. But so it was; he yielded to the big reputation of Belleisle, and to fear of what the world would say of him in France; a weakness which he will perhaps be taught not to repeat.
He retired to the St. John river about the year 1736 and settled near the mouth of Belleisle Bay. Francoise Belleisle, who had the honor of being a correspondent of Lieut.-Governor Mascarene, married Pierre Robichaux. The wedding took place at Annapolis Royal, January 16, 1737, the officiating priest being St. Poncy de Lavennede.
A gallant young Comte de Gisors, only son of Belleisle, perished in that disgraceful Crefeld: unfortunate old man, what a business that of "cutting Germany in four" has been to you, first and last! Landing of General Amherst's people at Louisburg in Cape Breton; with a view of besieging that important place.
The Belleisle-Broglio grand Budweis Expedition is gone totally heels over head; Belleisle and Broglio are getting, step by step, shut up in Prag and besieged there: while Maillebois Let us try whether, by snatching out here a fragment and there a fragment, with chronological and other appliances, it be not possible to give readers some conceivable notion of what Friedrich was now looking at with such interest!
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