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Foucquet

American  
[foo-ke] / fuˈkɛ /

noun

  1. Fouquet.


Foucquet British  
/ fukɛ /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of (Nicolas) Fouquet

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Foucquet, his neighbour, had judges, ind�pendants or not; he had known the cause of his accusation, and his defence had been heard.

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Saint-Mars, however, only knew of these practices after the death of Foucquet; the troubles of Lauzun were then at an end.

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This was not finished without tears and grinding of teeth, not without some injustice also, as in the case of Foucquet, assuredly culpable, but paying for many others, of whom Mazarin was the first.

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"It is a strange thing," wrote she, "this difference of time; who would have said to the Admiral Coligny, 'The wife of your grandson will be maltreated by the Abb� Foucquet'?—he would not have believed it, and there was no mention at all of this name of Foucquet in his time."

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Foucquet had been during seven years under the care of Saint-Mars, who had followed orders with such fidelity that Louvois did not doubt that he would be obeyed as blindly in any commands it might please him to give regarding Lauzun.

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