"He was in his 77th year.

Many people say, 'We must wait three months, to see if we shall not regret him,'"-- even him! [Barbier, iv.

373; i.

154.] So generous are Nations.
Marechal Duc de Belleisle was very wealthy: in Vernon Country, Normandy, he had estates and chateaux to the value of about 24,000 pounds annually.

All these, having first accurately settled for his own debts, he, in his grand old way, childless, forlorn, but loftily polite to the last, bequeathed to the King.