Don Mills, Ont. : Southam-MacLean Publications · leaf 21
1 vehement and prolonged. Unlimited expenditure ofmoney wrung from the pockets of a hard working-peasantry was the means by which the mare was keptmagnificently going. The many were persistentlyexploited in order that the few might pass their lives in luxuriant idleness. Never was king more… … Fig. 2 Fig. 3 decorations of the palaces and chateaus of the Franceof the time of the Grand Monarch was as sumptuousand extravagantly elegant as could possibly beimagined. With the means at hand and grand edi-fices in process of erection the most talented workersof other lands flocked to France.…
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