The unfortunate marriage exemplify'd in the life and surprising adventures of the Marchioness De Frene, Her Husband's Extravagant Jealousy towards her. II. His selling her for a Slave to a Turkish Pyvate, and reporting her to be drown'd at Sea. III. An Account how the Turk fell so desperately in Love with her, that he promised to turn Christian and marry her. IV. The great Riches they acquir'd by Pyracy. V. Of their sailing to Rome to get a Dispensation from the Pope, to set her former Marriage aside; on the Pope's Refusal, he entered into a Monastery VI. Of her going to France, where the French King espoused her Cause against her Husband, to the great Surprize of all her Relations, who thought her dead. The whole interspersed with several Strange and Remarkable Providences, seldom met withal in History.

  • Courtilz de Sandras, Gatien, 1644-1712.
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MDCCXXII. [1722]
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Mémoires de Madame la marquise de Fresne. English

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London : printed for T. Warner, at the Black-Boy in Paternoster-Row, MDCCXXII. [1722]

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[2],ix,[1],296[i.e.332]p. ; 120.

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