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Rh "He is a colleague of the count, and one of the warmest opponents the Chamber of Peers having a uniform. He was very successful upon that question. He stood badly with the Liberal papers, but his noble

opposition to the wishes of the court has recommended him to them. They talk of making him an ambassador."

"And what are his claims to the peerage?"

"He has composed two or three comic operas, written four or five articles in the Siècle, and voted five or six years for the minister."