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Excerpt from Rival French Courts: The Experiences of a Lady-in-Waiting at Sceaux, at Versailles, and in the BastillePosterity has not sided with Fontenelle, over and over again, from women whom time and distance have rendered impartial, as well as from men endowed by heaven with natural fairness, we hear these spontaneous expressions of delight which a truly human document cannot fail to call forth. Madame de Staal has a sense of humour delici...
Excerpt from Rival French Courts: The Experiences of a Lady-in-Waiting at Sceaux, at Versailles, and in the Bastille
Posterity has not sided with Fontenelle, over and over again, from women whom time and distance have rendered impartial, as well as from men endowed by heaven with natural fairness, we hear these spontaneous expressions of delight which a truly human document cannot fail to call forth. Madame de Staal has a sense of humour deli...