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The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. Volume 6 (of 6), Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 6

Note 404 — BOOK X[399]

Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation

Guillaume Cardinal Dubois, Archbishop of Cambrai (1656-1723), became Foreign Minister in 1717, was useful to the Regent in discovering Cellamare's conspiracy and received the See of Cambrai, as his reward, in 1718. He became Prime Minister in 1722. Dubois added to the Court of the Regency such depravity as there was room for.—T.

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