Vulgar words in The Story of Paris (Page 1)
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Legend adds that the schoolman, made famous by his thesis, that if an ass were placed equidistant between two bundles of hay of equal attraction he would die of hunger before he could resolve to eat either, was saved by his disciples, who placed a barge, loaded with straw, below the tower to break his fall.]
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Henry, like one of his predecessors, had of _bastards et bastardes une moult belle compagnie_, but as yet no legitimate heir.
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What a gilded crowd of princes and paramours, harlots and bastards, struts, fumes and intrigues through these Memoirs!
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31, Hôtel d'Albret, where goody Scarron used to visit Madame de Montespan and where she was appointed governess to the royal bastards; 25, Hôtel de Lamoignon, once occupied by Diana of France, daughter of Henry II., and where Malesherbes was born.