Secret Memoirs of the Regency the Minority of Louis Xv
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With regard to the Comte de Toulouse, there is a very simple way of distinguishing him from his brother; it is to have them both reduced by an edict, and immediately to re-establish, by a dec- laration, the Comte de Toulouse to the rank which he enjoys to-day, without the honours ever passing to his posterity. In this manner, you do justice to merit, and you disunite the two brothers. What- ever deference the Comte de Toulouse may have for his elder, he is too wise to ally himself to the resent...ment of his brother and to the fury of the Duchesse du Maine. And, if the Comte de Tou- louse allowed himself to be lured to the extent of forgetting his duty, he would be shorn of all with the approbation of the public. " M. Le due, delighted at being able to reconcile his hatred against the Due du Maine with his friendship for the Comte de Toulouse, consented to all that Saint-Simon proposed, and the latter taking advantage of M. Le due's dispositions: " It is not sufficient, " said he to him, " to consent; SECRET MEMOIRS OF THE REGENCY 163 you must make it your own personal affair with the Regent.
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