13 October 1780
From the Remembrances of the Marquis de Valfons
On this day, an important minister is dismissed. M de Valfons recalls the events:
“M de Sartines, Minister of State and Secretary of State for the Navy, was dismissed on Friday, 13 October, 1780.
The King, coming back from Compiègne on the 12th, stopped in Paris at the home of M de Maurepas, who had gout, and sent for M Necker. He had a conversation of an…
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