BOOK II.
Madame:—­I lay it down as a maxim, that
men who enter the service of the State should make
it their chief study to set out in the world with some
notable act which may strike the im...
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Jean Franois Paul de Gondi, cardinal de Retz Biographies (1)
A High Church figure and leader of a political faction, an admired preacher as well as a pamphleteer, the controversial cardinal de Retz remains best known in French literary history for his posthumou...
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