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The omniscent Larousse, of the Dictionnaire Universel, certainly did not know one very accessible fact about Saint-Germain, nor have I seen it mentioned in other versions of his legend. We read, in Larousse, "Saint-Germain is not heard of in France before 1750, when he established himself in Paris.
Those who would pursue the study farther afield, and extend their wishes beyond the four seas, will find all the aid they need or desire in Peignot's admirable Dictionnaire Critique, Littéraire, et Bibliographique des principaux Livres condamnés au feu, supprimés ou censurés: Paris, 1806.
The omniscient Larousse, of the Dictionnaire Universel, certainly did not know one very accessible fact about Saint-Germain, nor have I seen it mentioned in other versions of his legend. We read, in Larousse, 'Saint-Germain is not heard of in France before 1750, when he established himself in Paris.
She became a mother at fourteen, and gave milk from all her breasts. In his "Dictionnaire Philosophique" Voltaire gives the history of a woman with four well-formed and symmetrically arranged breasts; she also exhibited an excrescence, covered with a nap-like hair, looking like a cow-tail.
And he has laid this first stone." Recit de Mlle. It appears from Tanguay, Dictionnaire Genealogique, that Marie-Madeleine Jarret de Vercheres was born in April, 1678, which corresponds to the age given in the Recit. She married Thomas Tarleu de la Naudiere in 1706, and M. de la Perrade, or Prade, in 1722.
"Grossesse," Dictionnaire Encyclopédique des Sciences Médicales, p. 138. On the subject of violent, criminal and abnormal impulses during pregnancy, see Cumston, "Pregnancy and Crime," American Journal Obstetrics, December, 1903. In Germany the history of the question has been written by Dr.
"The accomplishment of no other function," Hyrtl remarks, "is so intimately connected with the mind and yet so independent of it." The process is still, however, but imperfectly understood; see Art. "Fécondation," by Ed. Retterer, in Richet's Dictionnaire de Physiologie, vol. vi, 1905.
Rebuked, and again liberated, Voltaire fled at first to France, where he published in the Dictionnaire Historique the most abominable assertions regarding Frederick's private life. Two years later he was settled at Ferney, on the Lake of Geneva, as a multi-millionaire, patriarch, and king.
"My father," said a young nobleman, "I am told that you have agreed on a marriage for me. Would you be kind enough to tell me if the report be true, and what is the name of the lady?" Ch. de Kibbe, 169. Mme. de Montagu, 57. Genlis, Dictionnaire des Etiquettes, i. 71. The nobility of France was essentially a military class. Its privileges were claimed on account of services rendered in the field.
Since you turn your thoughts a little toward trade and commerce, which I am very glad you do, I will recommend a French book to you, which you will easily get at Paris, and which I take to be the best book in the world of that kind: I mean the 'Dictionnaire de Commerce de Savory', in three volumes in folio; where you will find every one thing that relates to trade, commerce, specie, exchange, etc., most clearly stated; and not only relative to France, but to the whole world.
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