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Les femmes bibliophiles; catalogue of a collection of books bound by famous binders for royal and distinguished ladies from Marguerite de Valois to the Empress Eugénie (1919)

J. Pearson & Co · London : J. Pearson & Co. · leaf 46

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rms are those of Elizabeth, wife of the Due de Guise et dAlencon. Her fatherwas Jean Baptiste Gaston, Due dOrleans, the son of Henri IV and Marie de Medicis. Hewas born in 1608, and married as his first wife Marie, daughter and heiress of Henri deBourbon, Due de Montpensier, by whom he had one…

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