Death of Racine
It so happened that one evening that he was between the king and Mme de Maintenon1, at her place, the conversation turned to Paris theatres. After having exhausted the subject of opera, they turned to...
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Madame de Maintenon was a woman of much wit, which the good company, in which she had at first been merely suffered, but in which she soon shone, had much polished; and ornamented with knowledge of the...
View ArticleThe king and the queen of Spain
The first glance I took, when I made my first reverence to the king of Spain1 upon arriving, astonished me so much, that I had to use all my senses to pull myself together. I couldn't see anything...
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