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The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère

Note 160 — III. OF WOMEN.

Henri Van Laun translation

The memoirs of the time of Louis XIV. teem with examples of young men of the highest families who considered it no disgrace to live at the expense of rich and amorous old crones, and even to receive money from young ladies.

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