. A vagabond courtier; from the memoirs and letters of Baron Charles Louis von Pöllnitz. llel lines along thelength of the boulevards. To parody this at his courtiersexpense, Frederic William collected one day at Potsdama quantity of all kinds of country market-carts, withcorn and wood and vegetables, and made them driveslowly four times round the palace square, the Kingusing half the garrison to keep order. When the paradewas in full swing, he went with all his Court to admirethe show, and said, with a cunning smile: Here aremy boulevards! Admire the elegance and the richnessof the coaches !
. A vagabond courtier; from the memoirs and letters of Baron Charles Louis von Pöllnitz. llel lines along thelength of the boulevards. To parody this at his courtiersexpense, Frederic William collected one day at Potsdama quantity of all kinds of country market-carts, withcorn and wood and vegetables, and made them driveslowly four times round the palace square, the Kingusing half the garrison to keep order. When the paradewas in full swing, he went with all his Court to admirethe show, and said, with a cunning smile: Here aremy boulevards! Admire the elegance and the richnessof the coaches ! See, what order is observed ! Whatis Paris in comparison with this \ Manteufel, retired Saxon Prime Minister, who hadsettled in Berlin as an unofficial agent for Augustus,gives a description of Pollnitz as he seemed to himsome six months after the Barons return to Berlin,and which shows the position Pollnitz had made forhimself at Court. He writes to Briihl, the PrimeMinister at Dresden: Pollnitz is exactly the same as you have guessed—the Author of the Amusemens de Spa has drawn a. VOLTAIRE. From the Collection o£ A. M. Eroadley. 5581 THE KINGS JESTER 559 very good portrait of liim. ... As lie is, moreover, aman with brains, bold and dangerous, and very wellqualified to make all sorts of insinuations, bad and good,I set myself to make a sort of friend of liim, and I thinkI have succeeded fairly well, by means of some littlepresents, and by praising his work and his behaviour—which, indeed, is no longer so giddy as it used to is true that he is an ecclesiastic, being a Canon ofCambray; but I do not know if he has ever worn thehabit. As he has seen and read much, and as he ex-presses himself well, and has a remarkable gift formaking certain fellow-creatures he does not like appearridiculous, all Berlin tries to be on good terms with him,some in order to get amusement, others in order toadapt themselves to the trend of affairs, others from is candidly his ch
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