He was favored with the friendship of many of the
noblest personages in France, who would support his suit for the
restoration of his family honors, while the all-potent influence of
money, the open sesame of every door in the palace of Versailles,
would not be spared to advance his just claims.
The crown of the Bourgeois's ambition would be to see Pierre
restored to his ancestral chateau as the Count de Philibert, and
Amelie as its noble chatelaine, dispensing happiness among the
faithful old servitors and vassals of his family, who in all these
long years of his exile never forgot their brave old seigneur who
had been banished to New France.
His reflections took a practical turn, and he enumerated in his
mind the friends he could count upon in France to support, and the
enemies who were sure to oppose the attainment of this great object
of his ambition. But the purchase of the chateau and lands of
Philibert was in his power. Its present possessor, a needy
courtier, was deeply in debt, and would be glad, the Bourgeois had
ascertained, to sell the estates for such a price as he could easily
offer him.
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