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The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère

Note 258 — VI. OF THE GIFTS OF FORTUNE.

Henri Van Laun translation

Little, silly, ugly rich men were not more rare in our authorʼs time than they are at present; but the commentators will have it that the Marquis de Gouverney and the Duke de Ventadour were meant.

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