M.L.D.L.D.L., i.e. Pierre Mathurin de L'Ecluse des Loges, Sully Maximilien de Bethune duc
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, Londres, 1752, Eight volumes, with frontispiece portrait (la Grand) and portrait ( De Bethune) in first volume. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spines gilt. Spines very chipped Boards crudely repaired at some corners and edges. 8 volumes; LX-424pp + VIII-567pp + XI-577pp + VI-464pp+ VIII- 493pp + VI-488pp + VI-497pp + VI- 378pp.beaux volumes relies, reliures de l'epoque.
Maximilien de Bethune, first Duke of Sully (13 December 1560 ? 22 December 1641) was the doughty soldier, French minister, staunch Huguenot (Protestant) and faithful right-hand man who assisted king Henry IV of France in the rule of France. Historians emphasize Sully's role in building a strong centralized administrative system in France using coercion and highly effective new administrative techniques. His policies were not original, and most were reversed. Historians have also studied his neo-Stoicism and his ideas about virtue, prudence, and discipline.