Brewer's: Driver of Europe

(Le Cocher de l'Europe). So the Empress of Russia used to call the Duc de Choiseul, minister of Louis XV., because he had spies all over Europe, and thus ruled its political cabals.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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