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The Marquis D'Argenson

Note 96 — II. 1694-1724. Youth and early manhood—Intendant of Maubeuge.

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St. Simon, "Mémoires," XVI. p. 435. "On n'avait jamais oui parler d'un conseiller d'état et intendant de Hainaut de vingt-quatre ans; ni d'un lieutenant de police encore plus jeune." D'Argenson, as a matter of fact, was twenty-six.

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