Surintendant

The Surintendant had twice wounded the vanity of his King.

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It was at the request of the Queen that the Cardinal made the trusty Procureur _Surintendant des Finances_, the first position in

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Everything was magnificent, and everything was new, -- so original and so perfect, that Louis XIV., after he had crushed the Surintendant, could find no plans so good and no artists so skilful as these _pour embellir son règne_.

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All three hated the Surintendant, and each hoped to succeed him.

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The King could not conceal his astonishment at the taste and luxury of the Surintendant, nor his annoyance when he recognized the portrait of La Vallière in a mythological panel.

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Surintendant was seized and taken to Angers, thence to Amboise,

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The Marquis de Marigny, Surintendant des Batiments Royaux, obtained the authorization to chase out the parasites and clean up the Augean stable and put things in order as best pleased his esthetic fancy, but only with the early years of the nineteenth century did the Louvre become a real palace again and worthy of its traditions.

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His post as Surintendant-General, envied by a thousand, provoked indeed a certain amount of spite; yet all such vain efforts on the part of mediocrity to slander him troubled him but little.

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In the course of his career, the gallant Surintendant had attempted to add the charming widow Sévigné to his conquests.

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Marquis de Belleîle, -- but better known as the _Surintendant_.

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