...ion, which man cannot change; and the power of the gifted son of Colbert yielded to that of the wily, degenerate, avaricious Du Bois. By the in fluence of Protestant England, the recklessly immoral Du Bois , thrice infamous, as the corrupter of his pupil, as the licentious priest of a spiritual religion, and as a statesman in the pay of a foreign country, became cardinal, the successor of Fenelon in an ...