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On the other hand he felt that there could be no good taste in dwelling upon the virtue and the merit of a man's own acquaintance in an assembly like that of their Lordships; yet he trusted that he might be allowed to observe that forty years acquaintance with the noble individual who had been alluded to, enabled him to bear his testimony to the fact, that although those forty years had been passed during a time peculiarly fraught with calumnies of every description, there had been no man's private character more shamefully traduced, and no man's public character more mistaken and misrepresented, than the private and public character of prince de Talleyrand.
This opinion of Mme. de La Vergne, however, rests mainly upon the testimony of Cardinal de Retz; and may it not be that Mme. de La Fayette has drawn for us the portrait of her mother in the person of Mme. de Chartres? If this be true, Mme. de La Vergne, vain and intriguing though she may have been, was not wholly unworthy of her daughter.
[Note 48: A renewal of the Covenants, National and Solemn League, A confession of sins and an engagement to duties and a testimony as they were carried on at Middle Octorara in Pennsylvania. Nov. 11, 1743, Psalm. LXXVI, 11. Jérémiah, I, 5. Cette curieuse et très-intéressante brochure a été réimprimée
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