Vulgar words in Women of Modern France (Page 1)
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Her beauty was marvellous, but "calculated, to ruin and damn men rather than to save them."
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Jamyn (bastard), illegitimate daughter of Amadis Jamyn, page of Ronsard.'
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He would not have dared to legitimatize his bastard children, had he not been so thoroughly idolized by his greatest heroes and most powerful ministers.
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Exceedingly beautiful, graceful, and witty, she soon won her way to the brilliant and fashionable society of the crippled wit, buffoon, and poet, who was coarse, profane, ungodly, and physically an unsightly wreck.
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"With her taste for the pleasures of a grisette, her patronage falls from the opera to the couplet, from paintings and statuaries to bronzes and sculptures in wood; her _clientèle_ are no longer artists, philosophers, poets-they are the gods of lower domains, mimics, buffoons, dancers, comedians."