Cardinal Fleury
André-Hercule de Fleury, chief minister of Louis XV from 1726 until his death in 1743, a time of peace at home.
On restaurants, Paris, 1825
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste, Meditation 28 (first published December 1825), in the Flammarion edition of 1879 · published December 1825 (looking back to about 1770)
138. — Vers 1770, après les jours glorieux de Louis XIV, les roueries de la régence et la longue tranquillité du ministère du cardinal Fleury, les étrangers n'avaient encore à Paris que bien peu de ressources sous le rapport de la bonne chère.
Around 1770, the glorious days of Louis XIV were over, and so were the rakish tricks of the Regency and the long calm of Cardinal Fleury’s ministry. Yet visitors to Paris still had very few places to eat well.