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The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère

Note 274 — VI. OF THE GIFTS OF FORTUNE.

Henri Van Laun translation

All commentators agree that here the farmer-general George is meant, who bought the Marquisate dʼEntragues and married a daughter of the Marquis de Valençay.

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