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CHAP. IX.

elder D'Alembert was son to the Marquis of Montmorenci's sister, and heir to his titles and fortunes if he died without children. He was brought up with a taste for pleasure and extravagance—a taste which, on becoming his own master, a circumstance that took place at a very early period in life,