Excerpt from French Finance and Financiers Under Louis XV II. This princess was of gay and pleasing manners, and is said to have engaged, if not to have returned, the affection of her brother-in-law. Be this as it may, the Duchess of Orleans was on bad terms with her husband's favourites, and the most infamous of them, the Chevalier de Lorraine, was banished, as he sus. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.