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Updated: May 4, 2025
"Then, sire," returned I, "borrow of your friends." "Come, come, let us finish this business; I will give your <protegee> 4000 louis." "No, I cannot agree," answered I, "to less than 5000." The king promised me I should have them; and, on the following day, his valet Turpigny brought me the order for the pension, and a bag, in which I found only 4000 louis.
"Then, sire," returned I, "borrow of your friends." "Come, come, let us finish this business; I will give your protegee 4000 louis." "No, I cannot agree," answered I, "to less than 5000." The king promised me I should have them; and, on the following day, his valet Turpigny brought me the order for the pension, and a bag, in which I found only 4000 louis.
A great part of each day was occupied in a mysterious manufacture of cases for relics, and one of his valets de chambre, named Turpigny, was intrusted with the commission of purchasing old shrines and reliquaries; he caused the sacred bones, or whatever else they contain, to be taken out by Grandelatz, one of his almoners, re-adjusted, and then returned to new cases.
A great part of each day was occupied in a mysterious manufacture of cases for relics, and one of his <valets de chambre>, named Turpigny, was intrusted with the commission of purchasing old shrines and reliquaries; he caused the sacred bones, or whatever else they contain, to be taken out by Grandelatz, one of his almoners, re-adjusted, and then returned to new cases.
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