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When Marguerite (Marguerite-Louise of France, Grand Duchess of Tuscany), caught malaria, she claimed the royal family of Tuscany was trying to murder her, but that she would, in fact, rather die than return to her husband. Louis XIV asked the pope to threaten excommunication if Marguerite persisted, and the pontiff sent her a harsh letter. She didn't fear hell, she replied she was already living in it.
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marguerite
marguerite-of-france
seventeenth-century
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Eleanor Herman |
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"He's rich," Jack muttered to Eliza, "or connected with rich persons." "Yes--the clothes, the coins ..." "All fakeable." "How do you know him to be rich, then?" "In the wilderness, only the most terrible beasts of prey cavort and gambol. Deer and rabbits play no games." (Jack Shaftoe and Eliza)"
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wealthy-men
seventeenth-century
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Neal Stephenson |
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By the mid-seventeenth century, the visible image has assumed far greater reality than the invisible thought.
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seventeenth-century
visible
invisible
thought
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Thomas Cahill |