Letters From a Portuguese Nun to an Officer in the French Army: Being a Reproduction of the Edition of 1817 (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple
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Leisure which his military avocations permitted, he became enamoured of Marianne, a young Portuguese nun or canoness, in whom he excited a passion still more violent than what he felt himself. He was not however an Adonis, such as the gallant court of Louis XIV. Sent into the different countries of Europe to enslave the fair, and swell the number and spe cies of its conquests. He possessed not the talents or accomplishments of Grammont, nor the graces and wit of Hamilton. He resembled rather a Hercules in strength and corpulence, if we may trust the portrait which St. Simon has left us of him. He was.
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Excerpt from Letters From a Portuguese Nun to an Officer in the French Army: Being a Reproduction of the Edition of 1817
Leisure which his military avocations permitted, he became enamoured of Marianne, a young Portuguese nun or canoness, in whom he excited a passion still more violent than what he felt himself. He was not however an Adonis, such as the gallant court of Louis XIV. Sent into the different countries of Europe to enslave the fair, and swell the number and spe cies of its conquests. He possessed not the talents or accomplishments of Grammont, nor the graces and wit of Hamilton. He resembled rather a Hercules in strength and corpulence, if we may trust the portrait which St. Simon has left us of him. He was.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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American edition of Letters from a Portuguese Nun giving the first seven of the correspondence; but Jive of which, beginning with letter viii9 are usually printed. It is an exact facsimile of the 1817 edition with frontispiece representing Marianne interrupting her writing to gaze on a portrait of De Chamilly.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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