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For some weeks the Count of Provence was ambitious of power, and allowed Mirabeau to put him forward as a kind of Prime Minister, or for a position analogous to that of the Cardinal-nephew in seventeenth-century Rome.
Lectures on the French Revolution John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton 1868
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