Victoria Magazine, Volume 28Emily Faithfull, 1877 |
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Page 41
... Hôtel de Rambouillet , with its happy innovations on the prevailing style of architecture , having the windows opening to the ground , and into the garden , which extended back to the Carrousel and the Tuileries , was the chief theatre ...
... Hôtel de Rambouillet , with its happy innovations on the prevailing style of architecture , having the windows opening to the ground , and into the garden , which extended back to the Carrousel and the Tuileries , was the chief theatre ...
Page 42
... De Scudéry , the manufacturer of mammoth romances , occupy- ing half a score volumes each , at an early period made one of the select circle of the Hôtel de Rambouillet , and has given us a description of its mistress , under the name ...
... De Scudéry , the manufacturer of mammoth romances , occupy- ing half a score volumes each , at an early period made one of the select circle of the Hôtel de Rambouillet , and has given us a description of its mistress , under the name ...
Page 43
... De Scudéry , " the incomparable Sappho " of the blue - stockings , has left us a picture of the morals and manners ... Hôtel de Rambouillet became a sort of inner temple , where these doctrines 66 were worshipped and promulgated . Even royal ...
... De Scudéry , " the incomparable Sappho " of the blue - stockings , has left us a picture of the morals and manners ... Hôtel de Rambouillet became a sort of inner temple , where these doctrines 66 were worshipped and promulgated . Even royal ...
Page 44
... De Motteville has it , " an ornament of the ' belles ruelles . " " He read betimes , in his timid way , passages ... Hôtel de Rambouillet . Instead of pretending to be in love , à la mode , beaux ran each other 44 Madame De Sevigne and her ...
... De Motteville has it , " an ornament of the ' belles ruelles . " " He read betimes , in his timid way , passages ... Hôtel de Rambouillet . Instead of pretending to be in love , à la mode , beaux ran each other 44 Madame De Sevigne and her ...
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... Hôtel de Rambouillet came through an era of intrigues un- sullied ; " in no pamphlet of that period does one word tarnish her ' fame . " Young as she was , Madame De Sévigné was neither absorbed nor carried away by the society of the ...
... Hôtel de Rambouillet came through an era of intrigues un- sullied ; " in no pamphlet of that period does one word tarnish her ' fame . " Young as she was , Madame De Sévigné was neither absorbed nor carried away by the society of the ...
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