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The Grand Prieur heard him through and then cried: "Good God! I thought it was an attempt on the king's life! And for these brats you took me away from the supper table!" Jacques Haret now came to the front, gravely reminding the Grand Prieur of the connection between their ancestors and the loan of the breeches. The Grand Prieur tried to scowl, but instead, burst out laughing.
The more debauched a man was, the more he esteemed him; and I have unceasingly seen him in admiration, that reached almost to veneration for the Grand Prieur, because for forty years he had always gone to bed drunk, and had never ceased to keep mistresses in the most public manner, and to hold the most impious and irreligious discourses.
The Sister shook her head. He saw the deception in an instant. As best his strength would allow, he hurried to the keeper of the rolls. There was the truth. Home? Yes, to Prieur street, discharged only one week before. He drove quickly to his office. "Narcisse, you will find that young Mr. Richling living in Prieur street, somewhere between Conti and St. Louis.
The Grand Prieur, his brother, was in command under him, and was ordered to remain upon the field; but he was more intent upon saving his skin than on obeying orders, and so, at the very outset of the fight, ran away to a country-house hard by.
The Prince de Conti answered by a repartee, in which the other's honesty at play and his courage in war both, in truth, little to boast about were attacked. Upon this the Grand Prieur flew into a passion, flung away the cards, and demanded satisfaction, sword in hand.
My Objections. He Persists. His Death and That of His Wife. Death of the Duc de Beauvilliers. His Character. Of the Cardinal d'Estrees. Anecdotes. Death of Fenelon. Character and Position of the Duc d'Orleans His Manners, Talents, and Virtues. His Weakness. Anecdote Illustrative Thereof. The "Debonnaire" Adventure of the Grand Prieur in England. Education of the Duc d'Orleans. Character of Dubois.
The two brothers quarrelled upon these points, and in the end the Grand Prieur was obliged to give up his command. He retired to his house at Clichy, near Paris; but, tiring of that place, he went to Rome, made the acquaintance there of the Marquise de Richelieu, a wanderer like himself, and passed some time with her at Genoa.
Bo, Prieur de la Marne, and Lebon, send judges and juries to prison that do not always vote death.
The Grand Prieur demanded pardon of the Prince de Conti in the presence of his brother, M. de Vendome, who was obliged to swallow this bitter draught, although against his will, in order to appease the Princes of the blood, who were extremely excited. Nearly at the same time, that is to say, on the 29th of May, in the morning Madame de Saint-Simon was happily delivered of a child.
* Among those implicated in this attempt to revive the revolutionary government was Carnot, and the decree of arrest would have been carried against him, had it not been suggested that his talents were necessary in the military department. All that remained of Robespierre's Committees, Jean Bon St. Andre, Robert Lindet, and Prieur, were arrested.
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