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History of Friedrich II. of Prussia
Vol. XXI. (of XXI.)

CHAPTER II
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["26th May, 1767," age 19 gone; ELOGE of him by Friedrich ("MS.

still stained with tears"), in _OEuvres de Frederic_, vii.

37 et seq.] The King's Brothers, Princes Henri and Ferdinand, avowed frankly that they would never consent to have, by some accidental bastard, their rights of succession to the crown carried off.

In the end, there was nothing for it but proceeding to a divorce." [_OEuvres de Frederic,_ vi.

23.] Divorce was done in a beautiful private manner; case tried with strictly shut doors; all the five judges under oath to carry into the grave whatever they came to know of it: [Preuss, iv.


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