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The Electress Sophia and the Hanoverian succession

Note 244 — APPENDIX B CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN PRINCESS SOPHIA DOROTHEA AND COUNT KÖNIGSMARCK IN THE ROYAL SECRET ARCHIVES OF STATE AT BERLIN (continued 2)

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Gosses de princesses in the original. I owe the following reference to Dr. Braunholtz: Dans le jargon des voyous, une gosse, une gosseline, c’est une fillette de quinze à seize ans.... (L. Rigaud, Dictionnaire d’argot moderne, n.e., 1888).

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