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... Madame de Maintenon's sedan and showed that he wished to speak to her , she would lower the window ' de trois doigts ' , listen briefly and immediately push it up again ! And how illustrative of the monarch's solar egotism - ' c'était ...
... Madame de Maintenon's sedan and showed that he wished to speak to her , she would lower the window ' de trois doigts ' , listen briefly and immediately push it up again ! And how illustrative of the monarch's solar egotism - ' c'était ...
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... Madame de Rémusat , 1 the Empress Josephine's Lady - in - Waiting , Talleyrand's dear friend , and , like him , a product of the Old Regime , now a critical observer of the rough Napoleonic Court . - It was a Bonaparte's death , Madame ...
... Madame de Rémusat , 1 the Empress Josephine's Lady - in - Waiting , Talleyrand's dear friend , and , like him , a product of the Old Regime , now a critical observer of the rough Napoleonic Court . - It was a Bonaparte's death , Madame ...
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... Madame de Rémusat , that Queen Hortense was sufficiently wretched to disregard conventions ; and scraps of scandalous gossip soon reached Paris . They had an unpleasant sequel . When the Queen , having recovered her health and been ...
... Madame de Rémusat , that Queen Hortense was sufficiently wretched to disregard conventions ; and scraps of scandalous gossip soon reached Paris . They had an unpleasant sequel . When the Queen , having recovered her health and been ...
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