The political annihilation of Louis XV.

in Europe had been completed by the dismissal of the Duke of Choiseul.
The public conscience is lightened by lights which ability, even when triumphant, can never altogether obscure.

The Great Frederick and the Empress Catherine have to answer before history for the crime of the partition of Poland, which they made acceptable to the timorous jealousy of Maria Theresa and to the youthful ambition of her son.

As prudent as he was audacious, Frederick had been for a long time paving the way for the dismemberment of the country he had seemed to protect.

Negotiations for peace with the Turks became the pretext for war-indemnities.