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… and brother of Louis Philippe, afterwards king of the French. The marble effigy of the duke, by Sir Richard … mother, Margaret, Queen of Scots; to her aunt, Mary, the French queen; to her cousinsgerman, Mary and Elizabeth, … for centuries lay buried, till the wild fury of the first French Revolution scattered their ashes to the winds of …
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… had taken prisoner a Spanish (or, according to Pennant, a French) count. He had, however, a powerful friend at court, …
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… the Bishop of Coutances, asked the Normans, in the French language, if they were of opinion that their chief …
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… from the Leeward Islands, after an engagement with the French. His body, the inscription informs us, "according to …
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… soldier who had served under the Duke of Bedford in the French wars, for he was "barbarously taken hence to death." … of these works Caxton himself had translated from the French, and the copies of it bore date 1474. In Timbs' …
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… surprising echo in the arches, brings much company with French horns to entertain themselves under it in summer; and …
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… either in Greeke, Latine, Italian, Spanish, Portugall, French, or Englishe languages." He died in 1616, aged …
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… the Second, reflecting not on politics but the poetry of a French minister, plunged France into the Seven Years' War; …
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… In Little Dean Street stood one of the chapels of the French Huguenot Refugees, removed hither about the year 1700, … was stabbed, though not fatally, with a penknife, by a French noble refugee, the Marquis de Guiscard, who was … of the ancient city. Du Chatelet, the celebrated French statistician, shows that the "Quartier de la Cit"now …
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… known as "The Mall," under the direction of Le Notre, the French landscape gardener, who was also commissioned to lay … people over on his back through the water." Le Serre, a French writer, in his account of the visit of the … them, and that they marched to their barge with a boat of French horns attending, and little Ashe singing.' "Now-a-days …