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A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times

CHAPTER XXXVII
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If you will believe me, you will get out of this miserable business with glory, with the good graces of the king, and with what you desire for your own fortunes, which I am anxious to promote so as to be a support to mine." Rohan replied, "I should be my own enemy if I did not desire my king's good graces and your friendship.

I will never refuse from my king benefits and honors, or from you the offices of a kind connection.

I do well consider the peril in which I stand; but I beg you also to look at yours.

You are universally hated, because you alone possess what everybody desires.

Wars against them of the religion have often commenced with great disadvantages for them; but the restlessness of the French spirit, the discontent of those not in the government, and the influence of foreigners have often retrieved them.


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