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AFTER THE DEATH of the great King, beautiful Versailles, fatal for France, lay empty seven years while fresh air blew through its golden rooms, blowing away the sorcery and bigotry which hung about the walls like a miasma, blowing away the old century and blowing in the new.
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Madame de Pompadour, Madame du Hausset, Madame Poisson, Madame Infante, Duc de Luynes, Duc de Richelieu, Madame de Choiseul, Princes of the Blood, Son Excellence, King of Prussia, Madame de Mailly, King Stanislas, Maria Theresa, Prince de Conti, Cordon Bleu, Duc de Choiseul, Duchesse de Brancas, Madame de Brancas, Madame de Luynes, Comte de Noailles, Dufort de Cheverny, Madame de Maintenon, Madame de Vintimille, Maurice de Saxe, Princesse de Conti
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