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The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère

Note 282 — VI. OF THE GIFTS OF FORTUNE.

Henri Van Laun translation

This youth was M. le Tellier, who became Archbishop of Rheims in 1671, when he was only twenty-nine years old, but who already, before that time, received the revenues of six abbeys. (See also page 47, note 126.)

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