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Memoirs of a Physician
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Alexandre Dumas
An unexpected detour from the standard novel of intrigue, Memoirs of a Physician is the first in a series of Marie Antoinette romances, which reveal the sinister events that led to the French Revolution. Memoirs of a Physician exudes suspense, humor, romance, longing to be, and the becoming itself--all of the qualities that place Dumas' novels ...
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Angel Inn
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Comtesse De Segur, Pat Marriott (Illustrator), Joan Aiken (Translator)
A soldier who finds two abandoned boys entrusts them to the care of the innkeepers of the Guardian Angel, thus starting the boys and their benefactors on a series of adventures.
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Queen of diamonds
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Jean Plaidy
Based on the affair of the stolen necklace, which may have precipitated the French Revolution, this nove l offers one solution to the historical mystery, the motives behind which have long puzzled students and amateur detecti ves of history. '
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The Story of a Donkey
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Madame La Comtesse de Segur, J H Willard (Introduction by)
1903. Forty illustrations. In this book a donkey tells the story of his life and adventures, because, as he says: I want you to treat all of us donkeys kindly, and to remember that we are often much more sensible than some human beings. A charming, witty children's story.
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The Chevalier de Boufflers a Romance of the French Revolution
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Nesta H Webster
1926. A strong literary obsession overcame Webster that she had lived in eighteenth century France. Like the Ladies of Versailles, the more she read about the French Revolution the more she remembered. The Chevalier de Boufflers is her first serious book on the subject. It is the love-story of the Chevalier de Boufflers and the Comtesse de Sabran. ...
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Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry
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Comtesse Du Barry
MEMOIRS OF THE COMTESSE DU BARRY WITH MINUTE DETAILS OF HER ENTIRE CAREER AS FAVORITE OF LOUIS XV. WRITTEN BY HERSELF WITH A SPECIAL INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT ARNOT. M. A. N. WALTER DUNNE, PUBLISHER NEW YORK LONDON COPYRIGHT, 1 903 B Y M. WALTER DUNNE, PUBLISHER ILLUSTRATIONS FACIWO PAGE JEANNE VAUBERNIER, COMTESSE DU BARRY . . . Frontispiece From ...
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Ingres and the Comtesse d'Haussonville
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Edgar Munhall, Frick Collection
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Four Frenchwomen
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Austin Dobson
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La Comtesse de Charny
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Alexandre Dumas
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Seven splendid sinners
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W R H Trowbridge
PREFACE IT may be postulated as an axiom of history that in dividuals are more important than events. The importance, not to speak of the interest, of the latter decreases in proportion to their distance from posterity till they are finally submerged in the ocean of time. To this sweeping assertion there is, of course, as usual, an excep tion, and ...
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La Princesse De Montpensier, Suivi De "La Comtesse De Tende"
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De La Fayette
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La vie de Marianne : ou, Les avantures de madame la comtesse de ***
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Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux
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La comtesse
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Joan Smith
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Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry, with Minute Details of Her Entire Career as Favorite of Louis XV
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Etienne Leon Baron Lamothe-Langon
Jeanne Bcu, Comtesse du Barry (Marie-Jeanne, Comtesse du Barry) (1743-1793) was a French courtesan who became the mistress of Louis XV of France and is one of the most famous victims of the Reign of Terror. She first served as courtesan to Louis Franois Armand du Plessis, duc de Richelieu. Marie-Jeanne, however, could not qualify as an official ...
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Les Petites Filles Modeles (Dodo Press)
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Comtesse De Segur
Sophie Rostopchine, comtesse de Sgur, ne Sofia Fedorovna Rostoptchina (1799-1874), est une femme de lettres franaise de naissance russe. Le cas de la comtesse de Sgur montre qu'une vocation trs tardive d'crivain peut tre particulirement russie: elle a en effet crit son premier livre cinquante-huit ans. Ses romans furent publis entre 1857 et 1872. ...
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Memoirs of Madame Du Barry, of the court of Louis XV
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Hugh Noel Williams
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Memoirs of the Comtesse de Boigne: Volume 1: 1781-1815
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Anka Muhlstein (Editor), Olivier Bernier (Afterword by)
"We must rejoice at the publication of these memoirs. . . . Providing portraits and some unforgettable scenes with a keen sense of detail, Mme de Boigne's memoirs were greatly admired by Marcel Proust."-Victor Brombert
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Malheurs de Sophie/Petites Filles Modeles
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Memoirs of the Comtesse de Boigne: 1816-1830; Volume II
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Anka Muhlstein (Editor), Olivier Bernier (Afterword by)
"We must rejoice at the publication of these memoirs. . . . Providing portraits and some unforgettable scenes with a keen sense of detail, Mme de Boigne's memoirs were greatly admired by Marcel Proust."-Victor Brombert
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Les petites filles modèles
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Jean Claude Lowenthal, Louis-Michel Carpentier, Sophie Ségur, comtesse de
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The peacock king : and other stories
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Marie Catherine La Mothe Aulnoy, comtesse d', Albn Brunovský
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Les Malheurs de Sophie (Dodo Press)
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Comtesse De Segur
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Memoirs of the Comtesse de Boigne 1815 - 1819
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M Charles Nicoullaud (Editor)
The personal writings of a 18th-19th century French Noble woman taken from her personal writings. Her papers (published in several volumes) throw many side-lights upon a long period extending from the reign of Louis XIV to the Revolution of 1848, and this rather by means of the special details which are narrated than by any generalizations from a ...
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Memoirs of the Comtesse de Boigne 1781 - 1814
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M Charles Nicoullaud (Editor)
The personal writings of a 18th-19th century French Noble woman taken from her personal writings. Her papers (published in several volumes) throw many side-lights upon a long period extending from the reign of Louis XIV to the Revolution of 1848, and this rather by means of the special details which are narrated than by any generalizations from a ...
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Princesse de Cleves; The Princesse de Montpensier; The Comtesse de Tende
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Madame de Lafayette, Madame De La Fayette, Madame De Lafayette
This new translation of The Princesse de Cl `eves also includes two shorter works also attributed to Mme de Lafayette, The Princesse de Montpensier and The Comtesse de Tende . This book is intended for students of French and European literature; the European novel; those taking courses in women's writing.
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