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 | | Pasquier, in his "Recherches de la France," is giving an account of the Queen of Scots' execution; he says, the night before, knowing her body must be stripped for her shroud, she would have her feet washed, because she used ointment to one of them which was sore. |
 | | He was a lord of the bedchamber, and at one period of his life was privy seal.-D. (47) Madame de Mirepoix, French ambassadress in England, to whom her father, Prince Craon, had written a letter of introduction for Horace Walpole.- D. (48) Count Richcourt, and some Florentines, his creatures, had been very impertinent about Mr. |
 | | Madame, vous n'avez pas tant de rouge aujourd'hui: la premi`ere fois que vous `etes `a not venue ici, vous aviez une quantit`e horrible." This the Mirepoix herself repeated to me; you may imagine her astonishment,--I mean, as far as your duty will give you leave. |
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