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Françoise Langlois de Motteville : Memoirs for the History of Anne of Austria

[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 16 June 1758:] 'Since I came home I have picked up [reading] at Mrs Gambieu's the Memoirs of Anne of Austria, in a vile and most unintelligible translation; yet I keep reading on, and am much inclined to love Madame Motteville a great deal better than her heroine, against whom I have just now an irreconcileable quarrel for leaving her to all the dangers and miseries of a siege.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Book

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