The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 239
some historians assert.But, if it be disputed that he ripped up the bodies offourteen of his pages, to ascertain which had eaten amelon, and decapitated Irene, to shew himself superior MAHOMET II, [TURKEY. to love, (atrocities which Voltaire denies) it is certainthat he was naturally violent and… … MADAME DE MAINTENON, Frances dAubigne, Marchioness Maintenon, wasthe daughter of Constantius dAubigne, and of Annede Cardillac; and grand-daughter of the celebratedTheodore-Agrippa dAubigne. This illustrious woman,whose life was a series of the most singular vicissitudesof fortune, began it under…
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