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Image Attribution: Olof Johan Södermark (1790-1848) (Public domain)
Image Attribution: Olof Johan Södermark (1790-1848) (Public domain)
"I will not hide from you the fact that the young count de La Mole is bound to despise you at first, because you are nothing more than a little bourgeois. His grandfather belonged to the court, and had the honour of having his head cut off in the Place de Grève on the 26th April, 1574, on account of a political intrigue."
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