Pictures of the French: a series of literary and graphic delineations of French character (1840)
Janin, Jules Gabriel, 1804-1874 · London, W. S. Orr and co. · leaf 184
THE DUCHESS. BY M. DE COURCHAMPS. … NDER the old regime, a Duchess was a personage setapart in the social and aristocratic order of things inFrance,—a distinct species of the female genus,—astar of the first magnitude in the Court firmament.The Duchess had all the honours of the Louvre andthe tabouret*, to say nothing of her title of…
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