Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1893 — Hia Thought. [ARTICLE]

Hia Thought.

Talleyrand was 19 when, on his first arrival in Paris, in 1773, he attended a reception of Madame du Barry at Versailles. The young men around him were toasting of the favors they had received from the fair sex, and the devastation they had wrought. Talleyrand sat thoughtful and silent. -you say nothing, Sir Abbe,” said the lady of the house to him at length. “Ah. no. madame,” replied he; “1 was indulging in very sad reflections. ” “And these weref" “How much easier it is in a city like Paris to win women than abbacies. ” The king, to whom the reply was repeated, is said to have conferred on him Ihe benefice of St. Denis at Rheims witli a yearly revenue of twenty thousand pounds