To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian

The French Revolution: A History, Part 1, Book 3, ch. 7 (1.3.7) (1837)
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On Jean-Jacques Duval d'Eprémesnil's use of bribery to obtain, in May 1788, an advance copy of a royal edict depriving the Parlement of Paris of its functions.