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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Art. II.?Les Derniers Stuarts a Samt-Germain-en-Laye. Documents inedits et authentiques puisds aux archives pu- bliques ct privees par la Marquise Campana' De Catelli. Paris, London, and Edinburgh: 1871. 2 vols. 4to. Xt is long since the Stuarts have found as industrious and disinterested a devotee as the Marchesa Campana de Cavelli?an English lady, as we gather from the introduction to these volumes, by birth, though Italy is the country of her adoption, and French appears to be the language of her choice. The amount of pains and research which she has bestowed on this collection of documents, the first instalment we find of what will eventually form a very considerable addition to the mass of Stuart records, must have been immense, and we doubt if anyone before has ever been so prodigal of time and expense in the collection of historic papers. In July 1864, the Marchesa tells us, she arrived at Saint- Germain-en-Laye, and stood in front of the old chateau. Accustomed as she had been to meditate upon the ruins of Rome, and to live in imagination with the people of the past, she could not fail to call to mind the strange connexion of the gloomy and massive old edifice with the race of Stuart. Here had Mary Queen of Scots shone in all the brilliancy of her unhappy beauty, and received the homage of the court of the Valois as the bride of the Dauphin, and from this place she bade farewell for ever to the gay chivalry of France, with a sadness which seemed a presentiment of her tragic destiny. Here did Henrietta Maria, the queen of Charles I., seek a refuge from the troubles of the Fronde, when the axe sent her forth from the kingdom in which she had shared a throne to finish her days as a widow and in want in the country of her birth. Here, too, did another queen of England ma...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217347006 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217347002 |
| Weight | 1.56 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.08 In |
| List Price | $33.68 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 486 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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