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Duc de Sully   /dək di sˈəli/   Listen
Duc de Sully

noun
1.
French statesman (1560-1641).  Synonyms: Maxmilien de Bethune, Sully.






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... praised the wine very highly, on which one of the body had the ill taste to assure him that they had a better wine than that. 'You keep it, perhaps,' was the royal rebuke, 'for a better occasion.' Henry had a great opinion of this wine; and the Duc de Sully states, in his Memoirs, that when the Duc de Mayenne retired from the league against the king, and came to Monceaux to tender his allegiance, Henry punished him for past offences by walking so fast about the grounds of the chateau, that the poor duke, ...
— Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland • George Forrest Browne



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