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Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan — Volume 1Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan — Volume 1Historians have, on the whole, dealt somewhat harshly with the fascinating Madame de Montespan, perhaps taking their impressions from the judgments, often narrow and malicious, of her contemporaries. To help us to get a fairer...
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Memoirs of Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz — Volume 4Memoirs of Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz — Volume 4In December, 1651, the Parliament agreed to the following resolution: To send a deputation to the King to inform him of the rumours of Mazarin's return, and to beseech him to confirm...
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Memoirs of Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz — Volume 3Memoirs of Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz — Volume 3MADAME:Cardinal Mazarin thought of nothing else now but how to rid himself of the obligations he lay under to the Prince de Conde, who had actually saved him from the gallows. And...
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Memoirs of Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz — CompleteMemoirs of Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz — Complete Our Author, John Francis Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz, Sovereign of Commercy, Prince of Euville, second Archbishop of Paris, Abbot of Saint Denis in France, was born at Montmirail, in Brie,...
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Memoirs of Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz — Volume 2Memoirs of Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz — Volume 2MADAME:I lay it down as a maxim, that men who enter the service of the State should make it their chief study to set out in the world with some notable act...
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Memoirs of Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz — Volume 1Memoirs of Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz — Volume 1Our Author, John Francis Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz, Sovereign of Commercy, Prince of Euville, second Archbishop of Paris, Abbot of Saint Denis in France, was born at Montmirail, in Brie,...
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Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre — Volume 2Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre — Volume 2At length my brother returned to Court, accompanied by all the Catholic nobility who had followed his fortunes. The King received him very graciously, and showed, by his reception of him, how much he...
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Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre — CompleteMemoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre — Complete The Memoirs, of which a new translation is now presented to the public, are the undoubted composition of the celebrated princess whose name they bear, the contemporary of our Queen Elizabeth; of equal abilities...
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Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre — Volume 1Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre — Volume 1The Memoirs, of which a new translation is now presented to the public, are the undoubted composition of the celebrated princess whose name they bear, the contemporary of our Queen Elizabeth; of equal abilities...
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Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre — Volume 3Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre — Volume 3CHARLES, COMTE DE VALOIS, was the younger brother of Philip the Fair, and therefore uncle of the three sovereigns lately dead. His eldest son Philip had been appointed guardian to the Queen of Charles...
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Hospital SketchesHospital SketchesTitle: Hospital Sketches Author: Louisa May Alcott Posting Date: March 6, 2009 [EBook #3837] Release Date: March, 2003 First Posted: October 2, 2001 Last Update: April 23, 2018. Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 A considerable portion of this volume was published in...
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The Days Before YesterdayThe Days Before Yesterday The Public has given so kindly a reception to The Varnished Pomps of Yesterday (a reception which took its author wholly by surprise), that I have extracted some further reminiscences from the lumber-room of recollections. Those who expect startling revelations,...
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Rise of the New West, 1819-1829Rise of the New West, 1819-1829In the present volume I have kept before myself the importance of regarding American development as the outcome of economic and social as well as political forces. To make plain the attitude and influence of New England, the middle...
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The Roman and the TeutonThe Roman and the Teuton - A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of CambridgeIf I have followed in these lectures the better known and more widely received etymology of the name Goth, I have done so out of no disrespect to Dr....
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The Mirrors of WashingtonThe Mirrors of Washington President of the United States; b. Corsica, Morrow Co., O., Nov. 2, 1865; Educ. student of Ohio Central Coll. (now defunct), Iberia, 1879-82; engaged in newspaper business at Marion, O., since 1884; pres. Harding Pub. Co., pubs. Star (daily); mem....
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The Lady of BlossholmeThe Lady of Blossholme Who that has ever seen them can forget the ruins of Blossholme Abbey, set upon their mount between the great waters of the tidal estuary to the north, the rich lands and grazing marshes that, backed with woods, border it...
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The Star of Gettysburg: A Story of Southern High TideThe Star of Gettysburg: A Story of Southern High Tide "The Star of Gettysburg" is a complete romance, but it is also one of the series dealing with the Civil War, beginning with "The Guns of Bull Run," and continued successively through "The Guns...
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Napoleon and Blücher: An Historical NovelNapoleon and Blücher: An Historical NovelThis should be the first thing seen when anyone opens the book. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information they need about what they can legally...
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Reminiscences of Captain GronowReminiscences of Captain Gronow The spelling in this book is rather creative (including the occasional spelling of "ankle" as "ancle"), and the punctuation is remarkably varied. I have tried to preserve both, except that the spaces between a word and the following colon or...
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Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical NovelJoseph II. and His Court: An Historical NovelThis should be the first thing seen when anyone opens the book. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information they need about what they...
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