\ " Histoire de 3 Frangais," t. XXIX, p. 369. || The history of this minister, as given in the encyclopaedias, is a masterpiece of the kind. There is displayed a man ot good education (which is not a lie), endowed with talents (which is true), a friend ot letters (he wrote many to toreign paits), a skilful administrator ( (like the famous steward who sold his master's castle), and enquiring young men are sent away without the information that this honourablo man, this M. de Choiseul who expelled the Jesuits, had largely added to England's c olonial fortune, served Austria without hurting Prussia, fattened Pompadour, Canada, lost India, ceded Louisiana, starved France, etc.
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume VII, Issue 332, 29 August 1879, Page 7
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110Page 7 Advertisements Column 1 New Zealand Tablet, Volume VII, Issue 332, 29 August 1879, Page 7
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