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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 5 (of 6)

CHAPTER II
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On a tour through Normandy, he sends for the bishop of Seez and thus publicly addresses him: "Instead of merging the parties, you distinguish between constitutionalists and non-constitutionalists.
Miserable fool! You are a poor subject,--hand in your resignation at once!"-- To the grand-vicars he says, "Which of you governs your bishop--who is at best a fool ?"--As M.Legallois is pointed out to him, who had of late been absent.

"Fuck, where were you then ?" "With my family." "With a bishop who is merely a damned fool, why are you so often away, etc. ?" (D'Haussonville,VI., 176, and Roederer, vol.III.)] [Footnote 1210: Madame de Remusat--I., 101; II., 338.] [Footnote 1211: Ibid., I., 224 .-- M.

de Meneval, I., 112, 347; III., 120: "On account of the extraordinary event of his marriage, he sent a handwritten letter to his future father-in-law (the Emperor of Austria).
It was a grand affair for him.

Finally, after a great effort, he succeeded in penning a letter that was readable."-- Meneval, nevertheless, was obliged "to correct the defective letters without letting the corrections be too plainly seen."] [Footnote 1212: For example, at Bayonne and at Warsaw (De Pradt); the outrageous and never-to-be forgotten scene which, on his return from Spain, occurred with Talleyrand--( "Souvenirs", by PASQUIER Etienne-Dennis, duc, Chancelier de France.

Librarie Plon, Paris 1893.
I., 357);--The gratuitous insult of M.de Metternich, in 1813, the last word of their interview ("Souvenirs du feu duc de Broglie," I., 230) .-- Cf.


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