The Strange Career of the Chevalier D'Eon de Beaumont: Minister Plenipotentiary from France to Great Britain in 1763, Volumen1Longmans, Green, and Company, 1885 - 378 páginas |
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... wrote , and I am even persuaded , that it is impossible for an author to write a just history of his own life ; for he is either lifted to the height of vanity by pride inseparable from the human heart , or else feigned modesty debases ...
... wrote , and I am even persuaded , that it is impossible for an author to write a just history of his own life ; for he is either lifted to the height of vanity by pride inseparable from the human heart , or else feigned modesty debases ...
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... wrote her name , occasionally d'Eon , at other times D'eon , until the French Revolution , when , for a season , her signa- ture appears as Déon , bearing the prefix , La Citoyenne Geneviève . In concluding these introductory remarks ...
... wrote her name , occasionally d'Eon , at other times D'eon , until the French Revolution , when , for a season , her signa- ture appears as Déon , bearing the prefix , La Citoyenne Geneviève . In concluding these introductory remarks ...
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... wrote the subject of this Memoir , ' the purer , more stainless , and more distinguished will it prove to be . One member only , Eon de l'Etoile , ' was condemned by the Council of Rheims in the year 1148 ; but how many emperors , kings ...
... wrote the subject of this Memoir , ' the purer , more stainless , and more distinguished will it prove to be . One member only , Eon de l'Etoile , ' was condemned by the Council of Rheims in the year 1148 ; but how many emperors , kings ...
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... wrote privately to Louis XV . to that effect , the letter being carried to its destination by D'Eon , in his volume Esprit des Lois , ' after Douglas ' return from Versailles . We cannot undertake to fix the date of D'Eon's departure ...
... wrote privately to Louis XV . to that effect , the letter being carried to its destination by D'Eon , in his volume Esprit des Lois , ' after Douglas ' return from Versailles . We cannot undertake to fix the date of D'Eon's departure ...
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... wrote to M. Rouillé ; ' I have been long acquainted with his in- telligence , his zeal , and attachment to his work . He will be very useful to me , and also of good service to the King . He is steady and prudent . 2 Chancing to call ...
... wrote to M. Rouillé ; ' I have been long acquainted with his in- telligence , his zeal , and attachment to his work . He will be very useful to me , and also of good service to the King . He is steady and prudent . 2 Chancing to call ...
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