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… solitude. Quitting his own country he found a retreat in France, and passed many years of his life in the recesses of …
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… coronation of George IV. by the special Ambassador from France, the Duc de Grammont. The King himself was present, …
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… been an officer of some distinction in the service of France. The Duke of Ormonde had often invited him to dinner, … from Brussels; Barillon, Ambassador from the Court of France, the same (says Mr. P. Cunningham) "whose despatches …
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… in "Hunter's History of London" that "the road from Petty France to St. James's Palace, that which afterwards became … Francis Burdett:"Early in life he passed three years in France, at the outbreak of the Revolution, when he attended … Upper St. James's Park, "as the mode is in some parts of France and Italy, and other hot countries, for to cool wines …
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… stated above, by a true-lover's knot; the fleur-de-lis of France, formerly emblazoned with the arms of England; the … thus notices her departure:"I saw the old Queenmother of France departing from London. A sad spectacle it was, and … of Europe, wife to the greatest king that ever lived in France, mother unto one king and two queens." She died at …
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… the burying-ground attached to the "New Chapel" in "Petty France." It does not, of course, follow that because the name …
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… passing through or past Whitehall, much as Louis XIV. of France resolved to build the Chteau at Versailles because he … Roger Campaznol, was the son of the Governor of Brest, in France; that having been cheated by his landlord, a Huguenot, … terrible struggle this Society sent abroad to Germany and France, in nearly equal proportions, money and storessuch as …