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- ↑ The Bibliophile Dictionary 1904 Nathan Haskell Dole, Forrest Morgan, Caroline Ticknor "Deals with the later phases of the war of the Fronde; the imprisonment of the Prince de Comde and his relatives by Mazarin, the revolt incited at Bordeaux by his wife, and the various cabals and dissensions consequent on these acts, "
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