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This etext was produced by David Widger MARY STUART 1587 by Alexandre Dumas, Pere CHAPTER I Some royal names are predestined to misfortune: in France, there is the name “Henry”. Henry I was poisoned, Henry II was killed in a tournament, Henry III and Henry IV were assassinated. As to Henry V, for whom the
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This etext was produced by David Widger CELEBRATED CRIMES VOLUME 8 (of 8), Part 3 By Alexander Dumas, Pere THE MARQUISE DE GANGES Toward the close of the year 1657, a very plain carriage, with no arms painted on it, stopped, about eight o’clock one evening, before the door of a house in the rue
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