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Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency

By: The Duke of Saint Simon

...ng, though he had a vast and exact ac- quaintance with noble houses, their births and marriages, he was good for nothing. Nobody was so flabby in body... ...o longer any baptismal extracts; no longer any certainty as to baptisms or births; and the children of the marriages solemnised in the way I have stat... ... he was guilty of even greater presumption. The Abbey of Saint-Arnaud, in 451 Saint-Simon Flanders, had just been given by the King to Cardinal La T ...

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