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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1770 Excerpt: ... LETTERS WRIT BY A SPY AT PARIS. Book n. LETTER I. To the Venerable Mufti. at the E R E is now like to be a great change at this, Court. Cardinal Mazarine is dead. He died at trie cattle of the wood of Vincennes, on the ninth.of this moon, having been sick a long time. There happened a great fire at the Louvre, (lo they call the King's palace in this city) about five weeks ago, which obliged the Cardinal, who lodged there at that time, to remove to his own house. From "whence, for the fake of the air, he was advised by his physicians to go to the aforefaid castle: But all in vain: For Death, which finds access into the strongest fortresses, pursued him thither, and led him in triumph to theregions of silence and forgetsulness, who made so great a norsc and bustle in this our world. It is reported, that a certain astrologer foretold him he should.die in this mqon. But the Cardinal D 2 gave ave no credit to him: Though, one would think he had some reason to believe him in this, for the fake of a former prediction of his concerning the Duke of Beaufort. I have mentioned this Prince, and the enmity that was between Mazarine and him, which occasioned the Duke's imprisonment in the castle of the wood of Vincennes. During his restraint, the before-mentioned astrologer gave it out in Paris that the Duke should escape out of prison precisely on such a day. The Cardinal, being informed of this, waited till the day came, designing to punish the astrologer as a cheat, or, at least, to expose him as an ignorant person. To which end he sent for him, and, upbraiding him with presumption and folly, in that the day was now come, and yet the Duke of Beaufort was still a prisoner, without any hopes, or scarce a possibility of escaping, ordered him to be sent to the Basti...
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