[258] Charles-Auguste, Marquis de La Fare (1644-1712), a writer of light verse, whose life was wasted in indolence and ignoble pleasures. He was a constant guest at the Temple. See Sainte-Beuve, Caus. du Lundi, X.
[259] Ed. Chéruel, XI. 165 ff.; ed. Boislisle, XXVI. 266 ff.
[260] Ed. Chéruel, XVII. 20 ff.
[261] Saint-Simon in relating his death at Rome speaks of his ignorance, his indecent and disorderly life, his queer figure, and his ill-timed jokes. Though besides the rich see of Cambrai he held five abbeys, he died nearly bankrupt. He was brother to the Princesse des Ursins, to whom he owed his promotion (see XVI. 444 f.).
[262] The income of the see was 120,000 livres.
[263] Louis de La Vergne de Tressan.
[264] How the Regent was persuaded after all to be present at the consecration and how Saint-Simon got his information on this point may be read in the two pages which follow. The whole story is too characteristic of the Regent, Dubois, and Saint-Simon to be omitted.
[265] Vauban estimated the population of France in 1707 at 18½ millions.
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