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... of the Anglo - Gascons , came over to Charles , and acknowledged his right . Even in Paris plots were formed in his favour , but unfortunately discovered , and avenged with great severity by Bedford . A woman concerned in them was.
... of the Anglo - Gascons , came over to Charles , and acknowledged his right . Even in Paris plots were formed in his favour , but unfortunately discovered , and avenged with great severity by Bedford . A woman concerned in them was.
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Anna Eliza Bray. severity by Bedford . A woman concerned in them was burned alive . These signs of growing disaffection to Eng- lish rule gave him so much alarm , that he caused an oath of fidelity to himself as Regent to be administered ...
Anna Eliza Bray. severity by Bedford . A woman concerned in them was burned alive . These signs of growing disaffection to Eng- lish rule gave him so much alarm , that he caused an oath of fidelity to himself as Regent to be administered ...
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... woman -the power which gentleness and loveliness often asserts over the passions of men . Philip of Burgundy had two fair sisters , to whom he was much attached . The eldest , Margaret , was the widow of the first Dauphin Louis , son of ...
... woman -the power which gentleness and loveliness often asserts over the passions of men . Philip of Burgundy had two fair sisters , to whom he was much attached . The eldest , Margaret , was the widow of the first Dauphin Louis , son of ...
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... woman . Unfortunately , the very merits she possessed became a bane to herself and to others , by the ill use she made of them , in bringing about the devices of her own impassioned and arbitrary will . Violent in her loves as in her ...
... woman . Unfortunately , the very merits she possessed became a bane to herself and to others , by the ill use she made of them , in bringing about the devices of her own impassioned and arbitrary will . Violent in her loves as in her ...
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... woman , who cared nothing for public opinion . Her plans were laid with so much skill and caution that no one suspecting her purpose- she contrived to steal away from Hainault with her priest , whom she had won over to give his help ...
... woman , who cared nothing for public opinion . Her plans were laid with so much skill and caution that no one suspecting her purpose- she contrived to steal away from Hainault with her priest , whom she had won over to give his help ...
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