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Marguerite de Valois : Memoires de la Reyne Marguerite

'I have read your Reyne Margerite and will retourne it you when you please. If you will have my opinion of her, I think she has a good deale of witt . . . But the storry of Mademoisell de Tournon, is soe sad that when I had read it I was able to goe noe further, and was faine to take up something else to divert my self withall'.

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Osborne      Print: Book

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