"Durant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... more mischief to your country than was expected in this, and though he proved that he had pocketed upwards of ten thousand English guineas, the wages of his infamy, when he hinted about the recompense he expected here, Durant, Talleyrand's chef du bureau, advised him, as a friend, not to remind the Minister of his presence in France, as Bonaparte never pardoned a Septembrizer, and the English guineas he possessed might be claimed ...
— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton |
