Julien Gordon
Published: 2015-07-13
Total Pages: 244
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Excerpt from A Diplomat's Diary December 30. - Would God I had never seen the Princesse Flavie, or Madame Harnay, that miserable sycophant, as cruel and wicked a counsellor to her royal mistress as she has been a false friend to me and others! Was ever a rat caught in such a hole! What! I am in bad odor at court, and with the Empress; must decamp for the nonce because a silly woman and a base one have... Well, they fancied, did they, that they could so dispose of me, so encompass and trap me? Did they think that because I am a bluff, honest, outspoken sort of fellow, and loyal to my sovereign, I could be taken in such a broken net? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.