This is the police of a courtier who is desirous of pleasing, or of a subaltern who is in need of such means of making his merit be seen: it is not ours. A minister must calculate well on the indulgence or on the .weakness of... Authentic Memoirs of the Public Life of M. Fouché, Duke of Otranto ... - Page 43 by Joseph Fouché (duc d'Otrante) - 1818 - 168 pages Full view -
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