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The youth of Madame de Longueville, or new revelations of court and convent in the seventeenth century

Note 209 — Chapter II · 1635 to 1642. (continued 2)

Frederick W. (Frederick William) Ricord translation

It was customary to take in religion one’s baptismal name, as Louise de La Vallière was called Louise de La Miséricorde, and Anne Marie d’Epernon, Anne Marie de Jésus, etc.

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