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The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère

Note 463 — IX. OF THE GREAT.

Henri Van Laun translation

Among the citizens who had “become powerful” may be reckoned J. B. Colbert (see page 132, note 255), whose three daughters married dukes, and whose son married a relative of the Bourbon family.

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