Singleton, Esther, d 1930, [from old catalog] ed. and tr · New York, Dodd, Mead & co. · leaf 356
ardsthe middle classes, not that he had the least democratictendencies, but because he felt more at ease among thesesmall people, whose situation rendered them supple andeasy. He always liked to have them about him, andraised them to the highest dignities, in hatred and defianceof the high… … PLESSIS-LES-TOURS 269 selections were not always happy : witness La Balue, whomfrom a simple clerk he raised to the rank of bishop andeven cardinal, and who betrayed him to the profit of theDuke of Burgundy. Louis XL, carrying a certain refine-ment of cruelty even into his most legitimate…
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