. Imperial courts of France, England, Russia, Prussia, Sardinia, and Austria. Richly illustrated with portraits of imperial sovereigns and their cabinet ministers' with biographical sketches . e expulsion of the Jesuits. This sharp-witted beau soon pushed aside the bungling Bartensteinand the other corrupt officials of the old school, andestablished himself in that high reputation for the suc-cessful management of affairs which caused him long tobe styled the driver of the European coach. Whileambassador at Paris he plunged eagerly into all its gay-eties and excesses, and was so thoroughly imb
. Imperial courts of France, England, Russia, Prussia, Sardinia, and Austria. Richly illustrated with portraits of imperial sovereigns and their cabinet ministers' with biographical sketches . e expulsion of the Jesuits. This sharp-witted beau soon pushed aside the bungling Bartensteinand the other corrupt officials of the old school, andestablished himself in that high reputation for the suc-cessful management of affairs which caused him long tobe styled the driver of the European coach. Whileambassador at Paris he plunged eagerly into all its gay-eties and excesses, and was so thoroughly imbued withadmiration for all that was French that he never Iestedtill he had effected that alhance, which, cemented by themarriage of Louis XVI. with Marie Antoinette, lastedtill the Revolution, which deprived them both of could the astute Austrian perceive of the delugewhich was coming to sweep away that rotten old state- Hf^ 408 THE COURT OF AUSTRIA. fabric. Mixing but with courtiers like himself, he knewand cared nothing about the new ideas which were al-ready fermenting amongst the French philosophers andcommonalty, and which at last burst forth in such adire ebuUition. i. ?,)!N;t:ii hrj •\lKI(Q)Rfi]KV THE COURT OF PERSIA. THE SHAH OF PERSIA, Tkis Oriental monarch appears, as represented in theengraving, on a state occasion, at his court, wearing histriple cro\vTi, radiant and sparkling with precious gems andinnumerable diamonds of the purest water, and of immensevalue, which blaze around his neck, shoulders, and amis;thus exliibiting and illustrating the splendor of Orientalmagnificence. As an Oriental monarch over the Empire ofPersia, and recently at war with England, whose ambassa-dor was received, a few months since, with great considera-tion at the Imperial Court of France, his portrait in thesplendor of Eastern costume is an object of interest andcuriosity, with which we trust our readers will be ouly add a brief biographical sk
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