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She had first refused him, and then almost frantically tried to get him back; but by this time Gibbon was more comfortable in single life and less infatuated with Mlle. Curchod, who presently married Jacques Necker. M. Necker's money made his daughter a very celebrated "catch."
The lady started with astonishment she had an eye to the vast funds of the State, and she asked, 'What can 1,000 crowns be to the King? Necker's answer was, 'Madam! 1,000 crowns are the taxes of a whole village! I ask hon. Gentlemen what are the taxes of a whole village, and what they mean?
While Necker's Parisian friends rejoiced, his enemies at court prepared his downfall. Now the most powerful enemy of Necker's reforms and economies was the queen, Marie Antoinette. The light- hearted girl-queen had little serious interest in politics, but when her friends complained of Necker's miserliness, she at once demanded his dismissal.
Gratitude of the Citizens. The Princes are concerned in the Libels published against the Queen. Preparations for the Meeting of the States-general. Long Disuse of that Assembly. Need of Reform. Vices of the Old Feudal System. Necker's Blunders in the Arrangements for the Meeting of the States. An Edict of the King concedes the Chief Demands of the Commons. Views of the Queen. The Réveillon Riot.
Necker passing, perhaps by mere accident, stopped his carriage, and expressing himself with some resentment for such treatment to a Prince of the blood and a friend of the people, ordered the bust to be taken to the Palais Royal, where it was washed, crowned with laurel, and thence, with Necker's own bust, carried to Versailles.
He received, however, very repeated plaudits from the audience, some of which were merited, but more were certainly paid to his character than to his composition. M. Necker's long speech now comes to a close, and the King rises to depart. The hall resounds with a long loud Vive le Roi. He passes the Queen, who rises to follow him.
Madame la Marechale de Beauvau assured me that the Marechal de Castries saw the minute of M. Necker's letter, and that he likewise saw the altered copy. The interest which the Queen took in M. Necker died away during his retirement, and at last changed into strong prejudice against him.
Necker's conduct in this case was, in my humble opinion, as impolitic as that of a man who, after telling his friends that he is ruined past redemption, asks for a loan of money. The conclusion is, if he obtains the loan, that "the fool and his money are soon parted."
He concluded his letter by pointing out five requests such an office, or such a mark of distinction, or such a badge of honour, and so on, and handed it to M. de Maurepas. The or's were changed into and's; and the King was displeased at M. Necker's ambition, and the assurance with which he displayed it.
As to the reimbursement, the sinking of debt, and the other great objects of public credit and political arrangement indicated in Monsieur Necker's speech, no doubt could be entertained but that a very moderate and proportioned assessment on the citizens without distinction would have provided for all of them to the fullest extent of their demand.
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