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,or directly on the image,will bring up a larger version of the illustration.)By Frances Elliot
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Old Court Life in France
2 vols. 8º.
Old Court Life in Spain
2 vols. 8º.
OLD COURT
LIFE IN FRANCE
BY
FRANCES ELLIOT
AUTHOR OF “DIARY OF AN IDLE WOMAN IN ITALY,”
“PICTURE OF OLD ROME,” ETC.
ILLUSTRATED
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VOLUME I.
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G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
The Knickerbocker Press
Copyright, 1893, by
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
Entered at Stationers’ Hall, London
By G. P. Putnam’s Sons
Made in the United States of America
The Knickerbocker Press, New York
TO MY NIECE
THE COUNTESS OF MINTO
THIS WORK IS
INSCRIBED
PREFACE
TO THE FIFTH EDITION.
I CANNOT express the satisfaction I feel at finding myself once moreaddressing the great American public, which from the first has receivedmy works with such flattering favour.
I have taken special pleasure in the production of this new edition ofOld Court Life in France, which was first published in America sometwenty years ago, and which is, I trust, now entering into a new leaseof life.
That the same cordial welcome may follow the present edition, which wasaccorded to the first, is my anxious hope.
A new generation has appeared, which may, I trust, find itselfinterested in the stirring scenes I have delineated with so much care,that they might be strictly historical, as well as locally correc