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Updated: May 10, 2025
This Forant has purchased for me 350,000 pounds of iron in balls, 200,000 pounds of powder, twelve cargoes of Northern timber, matches, grenades, pitch, tar I know not what! with a saving of seven per cent upon what all those articles would cost me fabricated in France." "That is a capital and quaint idea," replied D'Artagnan, "to have Dutch cannon-balls cast which will return to the Dutch."
"Calculating upon the character of the Dutch, our allies, I said to myself, 'They are merchants, they are friendly with the king; they will be happy to sell to the king what they fabricate for themselves; then the more we buy' Ah! I must add this: I have Forant do you know Forant, D'Artagnan?" Colbert, in his warmth, forgot himself; he called the captain simply D'Artagnan, as the king did.
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