son naturel, one's feelings

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1. I. Quand on a âfc. Compare his remark, "L'État, c'est moi."

1. 10. le départ emejit des étrangers, the province of foreign affairs.

1. II. il ne laissait pas de bien remplir, he nevertheless filled well... see above, note to p. 32, 1. 28.

1. 16. remplirait le mieux. The minister hère alluded to, whose place Pomponne occupied, was Lionne.

1. 25. il a fallu que je lui ordonne. Ungrammatical ; it should be que je lui ordonnasse. Note that Pomponne was a victim to the combined intrigues of Louvois and Colbert.

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1. 5. condamné. See the squib on Chamillart quoted vol. II. p. 67, 1. 20, note.

1. 29. remettre vos finances, place your finances again on a proper footing.

1. 37. celles de Flandre. The troops in Flanders, or the Spanish Netherîands, were especially important in a war such as that which Louis XIV waged with England and Holland.

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