ANTIN, BENJAMIN.

Benjamin Antin (A); 23Aug54; R134845.

ANTIN, BENJAMIN.

Benjamin Antin (A); 23Aug54; R134845.

" The Duke of Antin, son of Madame de Montespan, one of the most adroit courtiers of the old as well as of the new court, "honorless and passionless" (sans honneur et sans humeur), according to the Regent's own saying, took a severer view than Dubois of the arrangement to which he had contributed.

The great Peacock Moth wings a sure course mateward to the mystification of the scientist; the dog finds the direct road home - his master cannot tell how; Mary Antin climbs to an education over difficulties apparently insurmountable; Rockefeller knows his goal and attains it, regardless of other moral worths.

Each of them brought his friends; and before long La belle Madame de Lavretski became well known from the Chausée d' Antin to the Rue de Lille.

Fortunately, we caught an empty fiacre in the next street and, as we were nearer the Rue du Faubourg Montmartre than the Chaussée d' Antin, Dalrymple set me down first.