Word: maintenon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foreigner, being held on the throne by their bayonets & restored to your feudal privileges, to camp in France, despoil Paris of its riches & treasures, while you shot the brave Republicans or left them to starve. Would you not like to do with those that disagree with you, as la Maintenon & her Jesuit allies did when they exiled the Huguenots, sending them to found new industries & enrich foreign countries? Or the St. Bartholomew's Massacre? Would it not be better to read solely Lamartine, A. de Vigny & Chateaubriand, who gave the English such good ideas to think up for vilifying...
Watteau was a gloomy neurotic who never married, never stayed long in one place, snubbed his friends, had neither morals nor vices, distrusted himself and his painting and worked stupendously. In 1716 the Italian comedians whom Louis XIV's prudish mistress, Maintenon, had banished 19 years before, were called back to France, and Watteau caught the vogue for them by painting Le Mezzetin...