Baradas. François de Baradat, for a brief moment a favor

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ite of Louis XIII., but quickly dropped. Fortune de Baradat = ephemeral prosperiiy.

Page 88. — I. Lafayette. Mlle, de La Fayette succeeded Mlle, de Hautefort in the favor of Louis XIII.

2. né vieux. Michelet applies this epithet also to Charles V. in an earlier volume of his history.