Edited sentence: In personal appearance Thugut is described as looking like a faunish Mephistopheles, a favorite of Louis XI, an Italian tyrant of the worst type, and by the prince de Ligne as what Henry IV of France would have been if he had been king of the Jews, and if his mouth had worn a constant expression of derision, hate and malignity.The only known portrait of him appears to bear out these unpleasant descriptions