...paid, and in the Polignacs, was obliged to succumb. Although raised by the courtiers, and despite the pains taken by the minister to flatter and to bribe...him to the task of still preserving the claims of * Afterwards Charles X, church and aristocracy untouched. They shook off from themselves, and threw...

...: he retired to England ; and M. de Brienne, archbishop of Toulouse, was chosen to succeed him ; ' as weak a head,' says de Stael, ' as ever was covered by the perruque of a state counsellor.' The triumph of the notables was not longlived ; for within a month...

...the archbishop of Toulouse, — Etienne Charles de Lomenie de Brienne, "as weak a head," says Madame de Stael,» "as ever was covered by the peruque of...indignation against the profligate Calonne. The notables dispersed, and left Brienne to enjoy the vanity and the difficulties of his pre-eminent station. The...

...archbishop of Toulouse, — Etienne Charles de Lomenie de Brienne, "as weak a head," says Madame de Stae'1,0 "as ever was covered by the peruque of a counsellor...indignation against the profligate Calonne. The notables dispersed, and left Brienne to enjoy the vanity and the difficulties of his pre-eminent station. The...

...archbishop of Toulouse, — Etienne Charles de Lomenie de Brienne, "as weak a head," says Madame de Stael,0 "as ever was covered by the peruque of a counsellor...indignation against the profligate Calonne. The notables dispersed, and left Brienne to enjoy the vanity and the difficulties of his pre-eminent station. The...