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Note 159 — VI THE DEATH OF MONSEIGNEUR[153]

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Mlle de Lislebonne and Mme d’Espinoy were daughters of Anne, Comtesse de Lislebonne, a legitimatised daughter of Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine, and widow of a younger brother of the Duc d’Elbeuf. They were both tall and had good figures; the elder, Mlle de Lislebonne, was plain, and the younger, wife of Louis de Melun, Prince d’Espinoy, was handsome. Mlle de Melun was her sister-in-law.

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