liancourts

Updated: May 29, 2025

But it lies not in exceptions to save a caste, or an institution; and a few Richelieus, Liancourts, Rochefoucaulds, Noailles, Lafayettes were but the storks among the cranes involved in the wholesale doom due not to each individual, but to a system and a class. But below them, and perhaps the cause of them all, lay another and deeper vice godlessness atheism.

Charles Kingsley - The Ancien Regime