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Excerpt from A Princess of Strategy: The Life of Anne Louise Benedicte De Bourbon-Conde, Duchesse Du Maine Translated From the French of General De Piepape by J. Lewis May With a Photogravure Frontispiece and Sixteen Other Illustrations
At the beginning of the eighteenth century, Woman was looked up to much as she had been in the age Of Pericles and in that of Leo X and the luxury and splendour amid which this strange fay-like little creature passed her days, seem as unreal, as unsubstantial, to our generation as the conditions Of her epoch differ from those of the present time. The narrative of her amazing caprices reads like the tale of some princess of fairyland Sainte Beuve, indeed, it reminded of a story from the Arabian Nights. More recently, Madame Arvede Barine, whose loss is so universally deplored, has dealt with her career in a brilliant and incisive study. We behold in the Duchesse du Maine one of the final efflorescences of the reign Of Louis XIV., one of the last to manifest the absolutism of an aristocracy of which La Bruyere, antici pating the modern verdict, declared that it failed to understand public affairs just as it failed to understand its own real interests. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
