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The Duc d'Angouleme, the Marechals de Schomberg and d'Estrees, Fabert, and other dignitaries were on horseback beside the litter; after them, among the most prominent were the Cardinal de la Vallette and Mazarin, with Chavigny, and the Marechal de Vitry, anxious to avoid the Bastille, with which it was said he was threatened.
"What do you mean by unfortunately?" "Because my appointment would be improved by it. So fifty francs per day for a prince of the blood, thirty-six for a marechal of France " "But you have as many marechals of France, I suppose, as you have princes of the blood?" "Alas! no more. It is true lieutenant-generals and brigadiers pay twenty-six francs, and I have two of them.
What is there then in France? A man too many." "Yes," he continued; "for two years I have watched the insidious and profound progress of his ambition. His strange practices, his secret commissions, his judicial assassinations are known to you. Princes, peers, marechals all have been crushed by him. There is not a family in France but can show some sad trace of his passage.
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