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MARIE ANTOINETTE. 237
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Europe—himself , Frederic of Prussia , and Voltaire . recalled After from an absence exile . of The more queer than spectacle twenty which years , the Voltaire eccen was tric time
old man presented when he arrived at Paris in carnival — excite and whilst his little a singular his the frail hollow merriment body red cheeks turban attired of were the trimmed in shaded populace a huge with by who and a monstrous fur grotesqu , taking was such him wool e pelisse as for wi to g a , ,
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Marie Antoinette. 237
MARIE ANTOINETTE . 237
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1863, page 237, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121863/page/21/
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