. The seven richest heiresses of France. ed from the Courtof France and had lived in England for fourteenyears when the Duchess de Mazarin met himagain. It was a great pleasure for both of themto be able to talk about the past, about la belleFrance, about the splendours of Versailles. Hevisited her every day, and it is in his letters,verses and discourses that one finds the scattereddetails concerning her life in London, for hewas her poet, lawyer, secretary and disinterestedadmirer. Saint-Evremond was famous for his charminofconversation ; if his poetry is but an easy im-provisation, void of
. The seven richest heiresses of France. ed from the Courtof France and had lived in England for fourteenyears when the Duchess de Mazarin met himagain. It was a great pleasure for both of themto be able to talk about the past, about la belleFrance, about the splendours of Versailles. Hevisited her every day, and it is in his letters,verses and discourses that one finds the scattereddetails concerning her life in London, for hewas her poet, lawyer, secretary and disinterestedadmirer. Saint-Evremond was famous for his charminofconversation ; if his poetry is but an easy im-provisation, void of originality, it is not the samewith his works in prose, for his Reflexions sur lesdivers genies du peuple roniain suffice to markhis place amongst the keenest critics. Thechapters on Hannibal and the second Punic warcould be advantageously compared with Montes-quieus writing on the same subject, and evenone could say that Saint-Evremond is broaderin his views than Montesquieu. His writings on Tacitus, Sallust, Caesar, Alexander, and 262. [to face FAiili 362 \ Seven Richest Heiresses of France his discourses on various historians, Seneca,Plutarchus and Petronius, deserve to be readattentively. He describes in the following- manner thepleasures of Hortenses hospitality: One findshere the greatest freedom ; everybody is morecomfortable here than in his own house, andtreated more respectfully than at the Court. Itis true that one disputes often, but this is donemore for enlightenment than in anger; this isdone less for the sake of contradiction than forelucidation of a subject; more for the love ofanimated conversation than for making the mindsour. The playing is but moderate and it is theonly entertainment. When Hortenses friend employs the adjectivemoderate to qualify the gambling, for whichHortenses apartment at St Jamess Palace wasso famous that it was popularly known as labanque of the Duchess de Mazarin, he is notexact; he is the only historian who attemptedto exculpate Horte
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