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| | Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Bussy was ordered to retire to his estates, and beguiled his enforced leisure by composing, for the amusement of his mistress, Madame de Montglas, his famous Histoire amoureuse des Gaules. |
 | | It was said that Bussy had not spared the reputation of Madame, and the king, angry at the report, was not appeased when Bussy sent him <b><b>ab>b> copy of the book to disprove the scandal. |
 | | Bussy wrote other things, of which the most important, his Genealogy of the Rabutin Family, remained in manuscript till 1867, while his Considerations sur la guerre was first published in Dresden in 1746. |
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