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They praised his good-nature, his affability, his talents, his magnificence, his wit. His post as Surintendant-General, envied by a thousand, provoked indeed a certain amount of spite; yet all such vain efforts on the part of mediocrity to slander him troubled him but little. This minister also largely profited by the species of fame to be derived from men of letters.
They praised his good-nature, his affability, his talents, his magnificence, his wit. His post as Surintendant-General, envied by a thousand, provoked indeed a certain amount of spite; yet all such vain efforts on the part of mediocrity to slander him troubled him but little. This minister also largely profited by the species of fame to be derived from men of letters.
They praised his good-nature, his affability, his talents, his magnificence, his wit. His post as Surintendant-General, envied by a thousand, provoked indeed a certain amount of spite; yet all such vain efforts on the part of mediocrity to slander him troubled him but little. This minister also largely profited by the species of fame to be derived from men of letters.
"That is impossible." "I thought I had already told you, monsieur, that I suppressed that word in my service." "The service of your majesty cannot prevent M. Fouquet from being surintendant-general." "Well?" "That, in consequence of holding that post, he has for him all the parliament, as he has all the army by his largesses, literature by his favors, and the noblesse by his presents."
"But, if it be thus, M. Colbert," said Louis, "we must immediately do as you say; M. Fouquet must be arrested." "That is impossible." "I thought I had already told you, monsieur, that I suppressed that word in my service." "The service of your majesty cannot prevent M. Fouquet from being surintendant-general." "Well?"
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