Vulgar words in Stray Pearls (Page 1)
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There she sat in her grand cabinet, and with her were the Cardinal, the Duke of Longueville, and many other gentlemen, especially Messieurs de Nogent and de Beautru, who were the wits, if not the buffoons of the Court, and who turned all the reports they heard into ridicule.
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In the intervals of grumbling every one was making love.
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M. de Juvizy actually was presumptuous enough to make love to the Queen, or to boast that he did.
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Monsieur was trying to hold the balance with the help of the Parliament, but was too great an ass to do any such thing.