This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...opposition he had shown at first to M. Necker's appointment, were it not that their philanthropic aims were identical with his own. Thus was he able not only to overlook their attachment to the doctrines of the reformed faith and their constant and friendly intercourse with encyclopaedists and philosophers, M but even ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...opposition he had shown at first to M. Necker's appointment, were it not that their philanthropic aims were identical with his own. Thus was he able not only to overlook their attachment to the doctrines of the reformed faith and their constant and friendly intercourse with encyclopaedists and philosophers, M but even to place his services at Madame Necker's disposal. In the course of their united efforts to alleviate the sufferings of the sick and poor of Paris, he paid on one occasion a signal compliment to her painstaking efforts. The Municipality of Paris had brought a lawsuit against him with respect to certain claims, but having lost the case was compelled to pay him an indemnity of 500,000 livres. The greater part of this sum he handed over to Madame Necker to be spent as she thought best for the public good, only stipulating that an account of the expenditure should be presented to the King. It was probably about the same time that he caused some surprise and amusement to the society of the salons by sending her and M. Necker an invitation to dine with him at the archeve'che', and by summoning no less than ten other prominent ecclesiastics to meet them. This was considered for Protestants an unprecedented honour. Scarcely was it to be expected that Madame Necker's philanthropic efforts would escape the criticism which a scheme of that kind was almost sure to meet with from one quarter or another. The ladies of the Court, who, with one or two exceptions, knew her as little as they appreciated her, declared that her charity was dispensed in such an ostentatious manner that all the world knew of it. In saying this they doubtless forgot AN INDISCRETION 179 that a great deal of the money expended upon her hospital had been subscribed by the King himself, ..
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