Excerpt from The PresentationFrance had long been accustomed to the rule, not of kings, but of favourites and ministers, and at the pres ent moment in the year of our Lord, 1770, she was under the rule of the most kind-hearted of women since the harmless La Valliere and the most upright min ister since Colbert.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.