Singleton, Esther, d 1930, [from old catalog] ed. and tr · New York, Dodd, Mead & co. · leaf 328
the place andpillaged and reduced it to ashes without sparing the pleasure-houses established in the vicinity. Under the reign of theunfortunate Charles VI., the Armagnacs and Bourguignonsalternately fell upon the village and ravaged the countryside. These multiplied disasters were promptly… … THE PALACE OF SAINT-CLOUD 247 an Italian who came to France in the suite of Catherine deMedici. Like several of his fellow-countrymen, he suc-ceeded in amassing a considerable fortune here. More for-tunate than some of them, he kept in favour with theQueen Mother. It was in this house, August ist,…
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