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Biographical Stories

CHAPTER IX
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Perhaps you would like to know something about her personal appearance in the latter part of time life.

She is described as wearing a man's vest, a short gray petticoat, embroidered with gold and silver, and a black wig, which was thrust awry upon her head.

She wore no gloves, and so seldom washed her hands that nobody could fell what had been their original color.

In this strange dress, and, I suppose, without washing her hands or face, she visited the magnificent court of Louis XIV.
She died in 1689.

None loved her while she lived, nor regretted her death, nor planted a single flower upon her grave.


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