Great pictures, as seen and described by famous writers (1899)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, ed. and tr · New York : Dodd, Mead and Company · leaf 247
ples would not permit it on account of theEncy elope die. It was not her fault that we cannot say thecentury of Louis XV., as we say the century of Louis XIV. There are then in the career and power of Madame dePompadour two distinct periods : the first, the most brilliantand most greatly favoured,… … Portrait of Madame de Pompadour. De la Tour. MADAME DE POMPADOUR 179 things happily. There was a second period, greatlycheckered, but more frequently disastrous and fatal ;this was the whole period of the Seven Years War, theattempted assassination by Damiens, the defeat of Rosbach,and the insults…
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