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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 Excerpt: ...from him, that, under most circumstances, he could have made that man his friend. This is known to have been absolutely the fact. The Due de Choiseul having more than once supplied, from his own fortune, deficiencies in the revenue, which other ministers might have taken less generous means to fill up. CHAPTER XXI. That splendid monstrosity, the palace of Versailles was certainly not in the same state of magnificence in which it had been placed by the vain ostentation of Louis XIV., but still it displayed a degree of luxury and extravagance which formed a painful contrast with the situation of a suffering and indigent population. There was also, in the aspect of the people who thronged its saloons and galleries, an air of dissolute frivolity, of careless, mocking superciliousness, which generally marks a court or countiy on the eve of its downfall. When the great of a nation have learned to feel a contempt for all those things that are in themselves good and gicat, the nation is soon taught to feel a contempt for the great; and, as a part of the nation, the Count dc Castelneau felt no slight portion of scorn for all that surrounded him, as, accompanied by Ernest de Nogent, he walked through the crowded halls of the palace towards the audience which had been promised him by the Due de Choiseul. He, perhaps, more than any one else, felt and contemned the persons and the scene around him. His eye was fresh from purer things--his mind had been sanctified by a commerce with virtue, truth, and nature--and all the vice, and the idle levity, and the ostentatious nothingness which appeared before his sight, struck him as some thing new and horrible, though he had witnessed the same scene many a time 1 efore. The conversation of Ernest de Nogent had not tended to smo...
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