Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1893 — His Thought. [ARTICLE]
His Thought.
Talleyrand was 19 when, on his arrival in Paris, in 1773, he attended a reception of Madame du Barry at Versailles. The young men around him were blasting of the favors they had received from the fair sex, and the devastanon they had wrought. Talleyrand aa: thoughtful and sbent. • -ou say nothing, Bit Abbe,” sa;d th lady of the house to him at length. "Ah. no, madam , replied he, "i indulging in very sad reflections. ” “How much easier It is in a city like Paris to win women than abbacies.' The king, to whom the reply wa- »- pt-atog, is^soidto iwyseonferr'}.; on h ; <
