Maurepas, French statesman, born at Versailles; was minister of France under Louis XV. and again under Louis XVI., an easy-going, careless minister, “adjusted his cloak well to the wind, if so be he might have pleased all parties” (1701‒1784).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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