recevoir, to receive (guests), to entertain

3. Richelieu, Cardinal (1624-1642), minister of Louis XIII — the seventeenth century Bismarck.

Pagre 19. — 1. Arthur Young (1741-1820), an Englishman, who traveled in France on the eve of the Révolution and published a highly intelligent and valuable book, Travels in France.

2. Saint-Simon (167 5-1 755), a very aristocratie and narrowly prejudiced duke, who failing of place and power, voiced his disaffection in a voluminous séries of memoirs, written in a singularly pictorial and boldly individual style, and offering a most varied and powerful, though not always trustworthy, picture of courtiers and court-life under the old régime. They were not published (except in fragments) till 1829.

Page 20. — i. marquis de Mirabeau, the father of the great revolutionary statesman and orator. His strange relations with the latter and fréquent commitment of him to prison form one of the most striking épisodes of the abuse of power under the old régime.