Old Lafayette Narrates, My Grandfather's Death

Old lafayette narrates othe lawyer's summary of his real estate portfolio, which recedes to a low drone. Old lafayette: My grandfather was a shrewd man well ahead of his time in matters of commercial profit. And when i was 14, the suitors came calling. Abbe faon approaches child lafayette and intrudes on his lonely stroll. The state lawyer says, did you hear me, my boy? You're one of the richest men in the kingdom. Jean de noi, the duc diane, aged forty three, sits on the same sofa in the same place that lafayette was sitting when he was told his mother died.