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I thought of all Saint - Simon's anecdotes about that room and ' bed . ' There the day began and ended with those strange ceremonies of the lever and coucher which seemed so pecu- liarly appropriate to a monarch who had taken the sun as ...
I thought of all Saint - Simon's anecdotes about that room and ' bed . ' There the day began and ended with those strange ceremonies of the lever and coucher which seemed so pecu- liarly appropriate to a monarch who had taken the sun as ...
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Saint - Simon suggests that Fénelon , consulted , advised Louis to keep the wedding secret , and that this direction of his put him in disgrace with Madame de Maintenon . But Saint - Simon is a gossip in the same degree that he is an ...
Saint - Simon suggests that Fénelon , consulted , advised Louis to keep the wedding secret , and that this direction of his put him in disgrace with Madame de Maintenon . But Saint - Simon is a gossip in the same degree that he is an ...
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6 that raged round the ' Maximes des Saints , ' the King openly siding with Bossuet against Fénelon , the Pope timidly ... There is a certain drive which the young Saint - Simon takes , with the Dukes of Béthune , Chevreuse , and ...
6 that raged round the ' Maximes des Saints , ' the King openly siding with Bossuet against Fénelon , the Pope timidly ... There is a certain drive which the young Saint - Simon takes , with the Dukes of Béthune , Chevreuse , and ...
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This volume published 1908, not 1808 as listed.
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THE GOVERNMENT OF SUBJECT RACES | 1 |
Dent | 28 |
Adam and Charles Black | 105 |
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