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. 1810 Excerpt: ...the other councellors had often in. ' terposed, and at length parted them, ' The 8055th volume of MSS. de la Bibliot. du Roi, from which I take these particulars almost word for word, relates them, with some other similar circumstances, to show the hasty and proud temper of the duke de Sully; and at the same time the, ...
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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. 1810 Excerpt: ...the other councellors had often in. ' terposed, and at length parted them, ' The 8055th volume of MSS. de la Bibliot. du Roi, from which I take these particulars almost word for word, relates them, with some other similar circumstances, to show the hasty and proud temper of the duke de Sully; and at the same time the, whole of this account is given us in such a manner as is not at all favourable to him. Le Grain also alludes to this fact in what I am going to quote. But though he agrees, that a minister ought above all things, to have a great regard 'for moderation, yet he cannot forbear justifying M. de Sully; "How was it possible," says he, "that he should retrench so many "pensions and salaries of officers who did no service for them, "refuse so great a number of persons that pressingly claimed and u demanded rewards, and have a watchful eye over the many "counsels that were given the grandees of the kingdom, which "counsels he often turned to the king's advantage, and to their u great dissatisfaction, without being invested with a very exten"sive authority, and shewing at the same time a lofty supercilious "carriage? The king too would have it so, to the end that all "might be on an equal footing, till he had discharged his duty u towards his kingdom, and enriched it: for which reason subjects ' ought not to murmur. And in as much as the king testified his "approbation of all M. de Sully's actions, when his majesty "declared to some of the great ones that wanted to quarrel with "him, that he himself would be his second; we are not at liberty to "canvass such proceedings, nor injure his majesty's memory after the new trade I had taken up. To this impertinence I replied without any equiv...
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