The Paleottis were punished, being sent home in disgrace, and a
penury, which, doubtless, they felt more keenly. But, alas, the
King could not banish with them all who hated him and France; nor
could I, with every precaution, and by the unsparing use of all
the faculties that, during a score of years, had been at the
service of my master, preserve him for his country and the world.
Before two months had run he perished by a mean hand, leaving the
world the poorer by the greatest and most illustrious sovereign
that ever ruled a nation. And men who loved neither France nor
him entered into his labours, whose end also I have seen.
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