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Updated: July 15, 2025
"You have the abbey of Cluny, which is rich?" "I have." "That of St. Medard at Soissons, with a revenue of one hundred thousand livres?" "I cannot deny it." "That of St. Victor, at Marseilles, one of the best in the south?" "Yes father." "A good million a year. With the emoluments of the cardinalship and the ministry, I say too little when I say two millions a year." "Eh!"
I do all I can for you, I offer you a place in my Council, I offer you the cardinalship; pray what will you do for me?" I said that I did not come to receive favours, but to try to merit them. At this the Queen's countenance began to brighten, and she said, very softly, "What is it, then, that you will do?"
His official recall did not in consequence take place for some time; and the Cardinal, not thinking it prudent to go back till Louis XV. should be no more, lest some unforeseen discovery of his project for supplying her royal paramour with a Queen should rouse Du Barry to get his Cardinalship sent to the Bastille for life, remained fixed in his post, waiting for events.
Various places he had held were at once distributed. His archbishopric and his nomination to the cardinalship required more discussion. The King learnt the news of the death of M. de Paris on the 6th.
So anxious was the Cardinal to secure the advancement of the Abbe d'Auvergne, that he had already made a daring and fraudulent attempt to procure for him a cardinalship. But the false representations which he made in order to carry his point, having been seen through, his attempt came to nothing, and he himself lost all favour with the King for his deceit.
"You have the abbey of Cluny, which is rich?" "I have." "That of St. Medard at Soissons, with a revenue of one hundred thousand livres?" "I cannot deny it." "That of St. Victor, at Marseilles, one of the best in the south?" "Yes, father." "A good million a year. With the emoluments of the cardinalship and the ministry, I say too little when I say two millions a year." "Eh!"
We must lose our all, if need be, in order to do our duty; in fine," added he, with his usual tautology, "it is right that a man should do his duty." Granvelle as he must now be called, for his elevation to the cardinalship will be immediately alluded to wrote to assure the King that every pains would be taken to ferret out and execute the individuals complained of.
The Abbe Dubois was only tonsured; 150,000 livres, a year tempted him, and perhaps this position, from which he could more easily elevate himself to the cardinalship. Impudent as he might be, powerful as might be the empire he had acquired over his master, he was much embarrassed, and masked his effrontery under a trick.
At the death of Clement XI., legal proceedings that had been taken to deprive Alberoni of his cardinalship, came to an end. Wandering and hidden in Italy, he was summoned to attend a conclave for the purpose of electing a new Pope. Alberoni was the opprobrium of the sacred college; proceedings, as I have said, were in progress to deprive him of his cardinalship.
On the 8th, in going as usual to his cabinet, he went straight up to the Bishop of Orleans, led him to the Cardinals de Bouillon and de Fursternberg, and said to them: "Gentlemen, I think you will thank me for giving you an associate like M. d'Orleans, to whom I give my nomination to the cardinalship."
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