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Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz. Containing, the particulars of his own life, with the most secret transactions of the French court and the civil wars. Translated from the French. In four volumes. ...
Retz, Jean François Paul de Gondi de, 1613-1679.Date: M,DCC,LXXVII. [1777]- Books
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An historical view of the negotiations between the courts of England, France, and Brussels, from the year 1592 to 1617. Extracted chiefly from the ms. state-papers of Sir Thomas Edmondes, Knt. Embassador in France, and at Brussels, and Treasurer of the Houshold to the Kings James I. and Charles I. and of Anthony Bacon, Esq; brother to the Lord Chancellor Bacon. To which is added, a relation of the state of France, with the characters of Henry IV. and the principal persons of that court, drawn up by Sir George Carew, upon his return from his embassy there in 1609, and addressed to King James I. Never before printed. By Thomas Birch, M. A. F. R. S. and Rector of the United-Parishes of St. Margaret-Pattens and St. Gabriel-Fenchurch.
Birch, Thomas, 1755-1766.Date: M.DCC.XLIX. [1749]- Books
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Memoirs of Madame de Stahl. In two parts. Containing, a particular account of the plot, for which the Spanish Embassador, great numbers of the French nobility, and Madame de Stahl, were committed prisoners to the Bastile, and to several other Prisons and Castles in that Kingdom. Her conduct under confinement; and the Integrity she preserv'd, notwithstanding the Artifices that were made use of to induce her to a Discovery. With the Intrigues of several Persons of High Rank, from some of which she had a narrow Escape: And a Relation of some State Transactions, which throw new Lights on the French History. Likewise some Account of the Conventual Life, this Lady having been brought up from her Infancy in a Nunnery in Normandy. The whole being A Series of very extraordinary and interesting Events; And is interspers'd With Characters and Anecdotes of several of the French Nobility, and of Persons either belov'd or detested for their Virtues or Vices. Written by herself, in her last illness. Translated from the French. To which are added, Historical and Biographical notes, by the translator.
Staal, Marguerite-Jeanne, baronne, 1684-1750.Date: M.DCC.LIX. [1759]- Books
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Les aveux d'une femme galante, ou lettres de Madame la Marquise de ***, à myladi Fanny Stapelton.
Vasse, Cornélie Wouters, baronne de, 1737?-1802.Date: 1783- Books
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Memoirs of the court of France, and city of Paris: containing the intrigues of that court, and the characters of the ministers of state, and other officers; together with the occurrences of the town. In two parts. Translated from the French.
Aulnoy, Madame d' (Marie-Catherine), 1650 or 1651-1705.Date: MDCCII. [1702]