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Excerpt from Histoire de France, Vol. 9: Depuis les Origines Jusqu'� la R�volution; I, R�gne de Louis XVI (1774-1789)
Les partisans de Choiseul craignirent que Maurepas ne barr�t la route � leur chef. Voltaire trouva m�diocre le choix que le Roi avait fait de ce conseiller; il �crivit Rien de mieux � faire pour les Fran�ais que d'�tre doux et aimables; M. De Maurepas est le premier homme du monde pour les parades Mais les po�tes officiels compar�rent Louis XVI � T�l�maque, et des m�dailles furent frapp�es o� l'on voyait le Roi sous la garde d'une Minerve qui ressemblait � Maurepas.
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