This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...children of this marriage took their mother's name, with her arms, and a descendant, Guillaume de Penancoet, married in 1645 Marie de Plceuc de Timeur, a daughter of Marie de Rieux, and of this marriage there were three children, of whom Louise Renee was the eldest.8 There was another sister, Henriette, and a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...children of this marriage took their mother's name, with her arms, and a descendant, Guillaume de Penancoet, married in 1645 Marie de Plceuc de Timeur, a daughter of Marie de Rieux, and of this marriage there were three children, of whom Louise Renee was the eldest.8 There was another sister, Henriette, and a brother, Sebastien, who took service under the Duke of Beaufort in the Candian campaign of 1669, and who died a few days after his return, in Provence. The mystery which had always surrounded the brilliant and clever Louise was around her from the beginning. Ridiculous and scandalous secret 248; i HER FATHER chap, x BiblioMque Nationale, Cabinet des Titres, No. 50,417. histories of her were published in her later life, after the manner of romances, and do not contain more than a farrago of wild nonsense and blatant impossibilities, as when Monmouth is gravely declared to be the Duchess of Portsmouth's son, and her people described as humble Paris merchants, and Charles's marriage with her is solemnly declared to have taken place with the service of the Church of England, and the Common Prayer Book! It is almost incredible to find so trusted an authority as the Nouvelle Biographic generate of France, published in 1858, gravely giving these so-called secret histories as authorities for its Life of Louise de Keroual. Indeed, so many historians have been content to quote these absurd fictions in dealing with the life of Charles's French mistress, that it is small wonder so much has been believed of her that was not justified, and so much ignored that should have been explained. The Sieur de Penancoet de Keroualle (or Penen-cour, as Forneron chooses to call him), had a small estate not a mile from Brest, and there Louise was born, and lived in...
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