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

Note 166 — Chapter II · 1635 to 1642.

Frederick W. (Frederick William) Ricord translation

The cardinal, now old and sick, was as much dreaded by these young girls as the small-pox, from which they had been flying.

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