The Chateau de Brissac 
A WINDOW IN THE DRAWING-ROOM 
highest character and a great friend to the 
poor. He was particularly kind to foundlings 
whom he educated and taught a trade; so much 
so that mothers under cover of the night were 
wont to deposit their children within the 
precincts of the park. He was also most 
liberal to those of his farmers whose crops 
had been destroyed or even injured by game, 
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