Memoirs of Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz, Volume 2
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The memoirs of Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz, are historic court memoirs of the great events during the minority of Louis XIV and the administration of Cardinal Mazarin, written by himself. Gondi lays it down as a maxim that men who enter the service of the State should make it their chief study to set out in the world with some notable act which may strike the imagination. Gondi says he preached first upon All Saints' Day, before an audience which could not but be numerous in a populous city.
Gondi says that what astonishes him most is that the princes and grandees of the kingdom, who one might expect to be more quick-sighted than the common people, were the most blinded. Gondi records a visit from the Duc d'Elbeuf, who addressed him with all the cajoling flattery of the House of Guise. Gondi says everybody saw that their only remedy was to make themselves masters of the Hotel de Ville by means of the people, but that he opposed it with arguments too tedious to mention.
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