Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Madame De Brinvilliers and Her Times, 1630-1676
One idea will certainly arise before the last page is reached, and the reader must guard his mind against it. It is unfortunate that the wicked people are generally more interesting than the good. There was much vice in the reign of Louis XIV., much hypocrisy, much double dealing. We, by the way, in the twentieth century are not so virtuous that we need cast stones at the seven teenth. But France, it must always be remembered, cannot be judged from Paris, and France was not wholly bad. Had it been so, Louis XIV. And his ministers with all their prescience could never have made it the first nation in Europe. At this period it boasted a roll of fame upon which were inscribed the names of Pascal.
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