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Fontainebleau.
For four days, every kind of enchantment brought together in the magnificent gardens of Fontainebleau had converted this spot into a place of the most perfect enjoyment.

M.Colbert seemed gifted with ubiquity.

In the morning there were the accounts of the previous night's expenses to settle; during the day, programmes, essays, enrolments, payments.

M.Colbert had amassed four millions of francs, and dispersed them with sleepless economy.