Mesmes

The first President of Mesmes ought to be friendly towards the Duc du Maine, to whom he is indebted for the office he holds.

The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency d'Orleans, Charlotte -Elisabeth, duchesse 2001

Mesmes to M. le Duc de Berry, who was to reply to it.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

Before his admission the Prdsident de Mesmes had loaded me with invectives, for secretly corresponding with the enemies of the State, for favouring his admission, and for opposing that of my sovereign's herald.

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The first President of Mesmes ought to be friendly towards the Duc du

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Mesmes, so that we should be reputed the authors of the tragedy, and, though formidable one day, should be every whit as odious the next.

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The clamour redoubled with such fury that President de Mesmes trembled like an aspen leaf.

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I once told the late President de Mesmes what seems now to me very probable, though it is the reverse of what I told you some time ago, that

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At first he had only the slender means left him by his father, but later pensions from President de Mesmes, the clergy of

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

Henri de Mesmes the younger, its owner in the third generation, was renowned for his zeal in collecting; he is said to have even procured MSS. from the Court of the

The Great Book-Collectors Charles Isaac Elton 1869

One of the finest things in his whole library was the Psalter which Louis IX. had given to Guillaume de Mesmes: it had come by some means into the library at Whitehall; but on the execution of Charles I. the French Ambassador had been able to secure it, and had restored it to the family of the original donee.

The Great Book-Collectors Charles Isaac Elton 1869