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Regent, they talk now only of banishing him, of proscribing him, of stoning him, as though he were the sworn enemy of France.
They condemn him without any form of trial, they incite the lower classes to persecute him, they pursue his friends and servants as though they were enemies of the country, and they forget no insult they can offer to the best man in the world and the most faithful and the most devoted Minister of State France has ever had. God knows the cause of all these disorders, as well as of the factions which now embroil this kingdom, and when the enemies of the Cardinal have reached the height of their in-
