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boldness to present to him today. It is the life of a man remarkable for his integrity probité; uprightness and moral excellence, for his wisdom, and for his offices emplois; high-ranking positions or duties within the state; whose birth was illustrious, whose mind was sublime, and whose eloquence was admirable; who for a long time held the Superintendence Sur-intendance; a high office of state administration, typically overseeing finances or public works of the affairs of the greatest King in the world; who was one of his principal Ministers, and one of his dearest Confidants; and without whose advice he undertook nothing of significance. To these rare qualities, which were suitable to his Profession, he had joined several others, which are not always found alongside it. We learn from his learned doctes; scholarly or erudite writings that he was accomplished in every kind of science, and that the science of Heaven original: "celle du Ciel"; likely referring here to theology or the divine sciences, contrasted with "those of the Earth" or secular knowledge was no less familiar to him than those of the Earth. He has so solidly established the truth of the Christian Religion Religion Chreſtienne against the infidels Infideles; a term used in this period for those outside the Christian faith or skeptics, that they can no longer oppose him with anything but their own stubbornness; and he has so strongly supported the purity of the Faith Creance; the system of belief or religious creed which Your Highness professes, that to attack it, there remains to those of the opposing Party This likely refers to the religious conflicts of the era, specifically the tension between the Catholic establishment and the Protestant "opposing party." nothing but violence and