Princes and Poisoners: Studies of the Court of Louis XIVFunck-Brentano, Frantz
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Princes and Poisoners: Studies of the Court of Louis XIV
Funck-Brentano, Frantz
France -- Court and courtiers; France -- History -- Louis XIV, 1643-1715; Poisoners
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