When Peter the Great visited Paris, he was conducted to the Sorbonne,
where they shewed him the famous mausoleum of Cardinal Richelieu. He
asked whose statue it was, and they told him: the view of this grand
object threw him into an enthusiastic rapture, which he always felt on
the like occasion, so that he immediately ran to embrace the statue,
saying, “Oh! that thou wert but still living; _I_ would give thee one
half my empire to govern the other.”
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