Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Letters From a Portuguese Nun to an Officer in the French Army: Being a Reproduction of the Edition of 1817
Served as captain of horse under the Marshal de Schomberg. During the leisure which his military avocations permitted, he became enamoured of Marianne, a young Portuguese nun or canoness, in whom he excited a passion still more violent than what he felt himself. He was not however an Adonis, such as the gallant court of Louis XIV. Sent into the different countries of Europe to enslave the fair, and swell the number and spe cies of its conquests. He possessed not the talents or accomplishments of Grammont, nor the graces and wit of Hamilton. He resembled rather a Hercules in strength and corpulence, if we may trust the portrait which St. Simon has left us of him He was.
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