Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third volume 2
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I. P. 138, supra. * See vol. I. P. 139, supra. 5 He had defeated Prince Ferdinand at Clostercamp, in the battle which made the name of the Chevalier d'Assas so illustrious in the French annals. In the reign of Louis the Sixteenth he became Minister of Marine and was much respected. He died in 1801, aged seventy-four. — E, KING GEORGE III. 253 genius. The Due de Praslin, the Minister's cousin, was ill-tempered and disagreeable, and far from pos- sessing superior abilities.^ The clergy were at a ...low ebb. The Archbishop of Toulouse, reckoned the most rising of the order, was aspiring and artful, but absorbed in his own attention to intrigue, which gave him an air of absence. He was only consider- able by comparison.^ He and many of his order did not disguise their contempt for their own religion. 1 The Due had none of the brilliancy of his cousin. His man- ners were cold and reserved, which his enemies ascribed to pride, and his friends to modesty. He never was popular. As Minister of Marine he appears to have discharged his duties efficiently, and the French fleet under his administration recovered the losses it had suffered in the war.
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