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Excerpt from The Potentate: A Romance
Vague enough in history is this name, Everard Val Dernement; yet across centuries the fragrance of the man's sweet life reaches us, and the story of his death, with his child son's untimely knowledge of it, stands out among the countless tragedies that color our chronicles of the Middle Ages. 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.
