Vulgar words in A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 (Page 1)
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Every one moved hastily aside, but not before some were wounded; it is even said that several were killed, among them a bastard of Polignac.
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Twenty-five years later John was the famous Bastard of Orleans, Count Dunois, Charles VII.
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Stephen de Vignolles, celebrated under the name of La Hire, resolved to succor the town of Montargis, besieged by the English; and young Dunois, the bastard of Orleans, joined him.
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"Are you the bastard of Orleans?" asked she, when he accosted her.
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"Bastard, bastard," said Joan, "in the name of God I command thee, as soon as thou shalt know of this Pascot's coming, to have me warned of it, for, should he pass without my knowing of it, I promise thee that I will have thy head cut off."
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It was an archer of the bastard of Wandonne, one of the lieutenants of John of Luxembourg, Count of Ligny.
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"The king my master," said the ambassador, "doth propose to assert by arms his plain rights over the kingdom of Naples, now occupied by some usurper or other, a bastard of the house of Arragon.
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"Sir," said the bastard of Bourbon, "there is no longer time for the amusement of making knights; the enemy is coming on in force; go we at him."
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The king, being very hard pressed, defended himself fiercely against those who would have taken him; the bastard Matthew of Bourbon, his brother-in-arms and one of the bravest knights in the army, had thrown himself twenty paces in front of him to cover him, and had just been taken prisoner by the Marquis of Mantua in person, when a mass of the royal troops came to their aid, and released them from all peril.