coubrier

Updated: June 24, 2025

The Marquis de Coubrier had been Master of the Horse to Charles X. His widow an old lady between seventy and eighty with three maiden daughters, all advanced in years, lived upon the remnant of their estates in a small village called Larue, close to Bourg-la-Reine, which, it may be remembered, was occupied by the Prussians during the siege of Paris.

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