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Mazarin's Library
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ledge, more than forty thousand volumes, of which more than twelve thousand were in folio, I withdrew, with tears in my eyes at the thought that the public was on the eve of being deprived of so great a treasure, and that the noble intentions of His Eminence were being so ill repaid that, instead of raising monuments to him for the many victories gained and the many cities taken through his efforts; and for having so successfully administered the affairs of France in the many storms and tempests through which she had passed; and for having so faithfully served and so vigorously defended the authority of the King and his mother, in her quality of
