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Updated: May 23, 2025
Yet he was still afraid to hope for the realization of his dream, when one of his friends, Count Alexandra de Laborde who, after serving as an emigre, in the Austrian army, had returned to France and been appointed Master of Requests in the Council of State, encouraged him in his ideas which might at first have seemed fanciful, M. de Laborde, whose father had been court-banker before the Revolution, and had most generously aided Marie Antoinette, was well known and much liked in Vienna.
The comte Jean assured her of this, and settled with her the period of the payment of the hundred thousand livres, which were to be paid at sight on her drawing on M. de la Borde, the court-banker. Thus then my presentation was an assured matter: nothing now could prevent it, at least I fancied so to myself.
The comte Jean assured her of this, and settled with her the period of the payment of the hundred thousand livres, which were to be paid at sight on her drawing on M. de la Borde, the court-banker. Thus then my presentation was an assured matter: nothing now could prevent it, at least I fancied so to myself.
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