Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1919 — Gambling Spirit Strong. [ARTICLE]

Gambling Spirit Strong.

Mazarin’s passion for gambling was so strong, even when death was near, that he played cards to the very end, when he was so weak that they had to meld for him, and Charles 11, the “Merry Monarch,” spent his last Sunday on earth playing at basset around a large table with his great courtiers and other dissolute persons and with a bank of at least £2,000 before him.