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<p>One of my particular Friends Brigadier<lb/>Rybanpierre a Swiss by birth, but<lb/> married into a Russian Family gave <lb/>me yesterday some account of the <sic>Col<hi rend="superscript">l</hi></sic><lb/> de la Fontane of whom you enquired<lb/> in one of your last Letters, and of whom <lb/> <sic>till</sic> then I told you in my last all my<lb/>researches had been fruitless.</p> <p> De la Fontane had been Lieutenant<lb/> in the Swiss Guards in the Service of the<lb/> King of France, & lived at a very<lb/> expensive rate at Paris without having <lb/>any apparent resource but Cards<lb/> but his Play was so lucky, <sic>tho'</sic> at the <lb/>same time honourable that it furnished<lb/> him with means of living at the Rate<lb/> of perhaps Ten or twelve thousand <foreign>Livres</foreign> <lb/> per Month. The quantity of Anecdotes<lb/> with which he was stocked & his <del>agree</del><lb/> manner of relating them, made his<lb/> Company sought after, and he was<lb/> much of the Queen's Society, at length<lb/> however, a Turn of ill Luck reduced <lb/>him to the necessity of disposing of his<lb/> House & Effects & secretly absconding after <lb/> having made some considerable Debts: but<lb/> again as it is supposed by another Change <lb/>of Fortune the Creditors had no sooner given<lb/><add> up</add> </p> | |||
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One of my particular Friends Brigadier
Rybanpierre a Swiss by birth, but
married into a Russian Family gave
me yesterday some account of the Coll
de la Fontane of whom you enquired
in one of your last Letters, and of whom
till then I told you in my last all my
researches had been fruitless.
De la Fontane had been Lieutenant
in the Swiss Guards in the Service of the
King of France, & lived at a very
expensive rate at Paris without having
any apparent resource but Cards
but his Play was so lucky, tho' at the
same time honourable that it furnished
him with means of living at the Rate
of perhaps Ten or twelve thousand Livres
per Month. The quantity of Anecdotes
with which he was stocked & his agree
manner of relating them, made his
Company sought after, and he was
much of the Queen's Society, at length
however, a Turn of ill Luck reduced
him to the necessity of disposing of his
House & Effects & secretly absconding after
having made some considerable Debts: but
again as it is supposed by another Change
of Fortune the Creditors had no sooner given
up
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