Note 558 — XI. OF MANKIND.
Henri Van Laun translation
Gambling was highly valued at court (see page 154, § 71); the Marquis de Dangeau (see page 156, note 311) owed partly his position to his successes at the gambling-table; and the mathematician Sauveur, a member of the Academy of Sciences, used to give scientific demonstrations before the king and the court of the various combinations of the fashionable games.