Vulgar words in A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 (Page 1)

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The will was darkly talked about; the effect of the elevation of bastards to the rank of princes of the blood had been terrible.

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But the Duke of Bourbon, heir of the House of Conde, fierce in temper, violent in his hate, greedy of honors as well as of money, had just arrived at man's estate, and was wroth at sight of the bastards' greatness.

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They counted upon the Parliaments, taking example from that of Paris, on the whole of Brittany, in revolt at the prolongation of the tithe-tax, on all the old court, accustomed to the yoke of the bastards and of Madame de Maintenon, on Languedoc, of which the Duke of Maine was the governor; they talked of carrying off the Duke of Orleans, and taking him to the castle of Toledo; Alberoni promised the assistance of a Spanish army.

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The Americans are the sons and not the bastards of England...

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Descended from a bastard of Henry II.

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