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Loading... Journal et Mémoires du Marquis D'argensonby marquis d' René-Louis de Voyer Argenson
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Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de lediteur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1901 edition. Extrait: ...kept him alive for the last twenty-four hours with an elixir which gives vigour to the blood; but it shortens animal life while prolonging by a trifle the life of the spirit. He died by his own fault, as always happens with those who die in the flower of their age (he was only forty-seven). He had made himself a bad stomach; all that he did to cure it was to go without dinner and eat a great supper, to hunt violently in order to get an appetite for the evening, and to take various elixirs of his own making. He had had a continual dysentery for two years, and increased it by such bad regimen instead of strengthening nature by a good one. The Court is left almost without princes of the blood, if we except the Duc de Chartres, who is growing up to figure there with excellent sense and dignity; we must also except extreme petty piety like that of the Duc dOrleans and extreme debauchery, intemperance, and folly in the persons of MM. de Charolais, Clermont, and Conti. M. le Duc had a patrimony of nine hundred thousand francs a year, and his government, offices, and pension went to another million, so that he had fully three millions a year. All the authority of this branch will now fall to the old and wicked dowager duchess Louise, daughter of Louis XIV. and Mme. de Montespan. The Prince de Conde is only three years old. Another senility of the cardinal, another indignity The day after the death of M. le Duc he went to see the queen. Mme. de Luynes said to him with her well-known grace, "Well, monseigneur, that poor M. le Duc is dead." The cardinal put on his burial face, and said he was an honest man, that it was pitiful, dying thus in middle life with all his faculties, and he seemed... No library descriptions found. |
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