All eyes were turned upon De Machault and De Maurepas, both of them much advanced in years.

The first had retired to his estate near Paris; and the second to Pont Chartrain, to which place he had long been exiled.

The letter recalling M.de Machault was written, when Madame Adelaide obtained the preference of that important appointment for M.de Maurepas.

The page to whose care the first letter had been actually consigned was recalled.
The Duc d'Aiguillon had been too openly known as the private friend of the King's mistress; he was dismissed.

M.de Vergennes, at that time ambassador of France at Stockholm, was appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs; Comte du Muy, the intimate friend of the Dauphin, the father of Louis XVI.[?
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D.W.], obtained the War Department.