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A descriptive and historical account of various palaces and public buildings (English and foreign) : with biographical notices of their founders, and other eminent persons (1821)

Brewer, J. N. (James Norris), Gill, B. R · London : Printed by W. Lewis for W. Gilling · leaf 127

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in the plate, is sufficient toshew It to be a building of considerable magnificence. It is of the compositeorder; the columns are tolerably correct in the base and the shaft, but notperfectly so in the capital and entablature. When we consider that so shorta period has elapsed since the time when… … P ,^ ca I U mmviption OF THE PALACE OF ST. CLOUD; WITH ANECDOTES OF THE COVHT OF FRANCS. The gallantry of the French people has exposed their government, in apeculiar degree, to the influence of women ;* accustomed, in the ordinaryintercourse of life, to prostrate themselves before these idols of…

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