The popular saying and thing (for in Paris the thing and its saying are like the horse and its rider) ricochetted, so to speak, to this company.
Monsieur Minard was always impatiently expected, for he was certain to know the truth of important circumstances.

The women of the Thuillier salon held by the Jesuits; the men defended the University; and, as a general thing, the women listened.

A man of intelligence (could he have borne the dulness of these evenings) would have laughed, as he would at a comedy of Moliere, on hearing, amid endless discussion, such remarks as the following:-- "How could the Revolution of 1789 have been avoided?
The loans of Louis XIV.

prepared the way for it.

Louis XV., an egotist, a man of narrow mind (didn't he say, 'If I were lieutenant of police I would suppress cabriolets' ?), that dissolute king--you remember his Parc aux Cerfs ?--did much to open the abyss of revolution.