Note 28 — II THE BEGINNINGS OF THE MARQUISE DE POMPADOUR
Elizabeth Gilbert Martin translation
He knows how to love and how to fight; He sends to this fair abode A brevet worthy of Henry Fourth, Signed: Louis, Mars, and Love. But the enemies have their turn, And his valor and his prudence Give to Ghent, the same day, A brevet as a French city. These two brevets, so welcome, Will both survive in memory. With him the altars of Venus Are in the temple of Glory.