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When he took the opera singer known as La Petitpas for his mistress, building her a fanciful palace in the garden of the Hotel de Lude (his luxurious house in Paris), he was
The Death and Resurrection of a Cabinet Heather McDougal 2008
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When he took the opera singer known as La Petitpas for his mistress, building her a fanciful palace in the garden of the Hotel de Lude (his luxurious house in Paris), he was
Archive 2008-05-01 Heather McDougal 2008
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Lude and lurid, sordid and tawdry experiences......are always better when they involve a Cousin, particularly a first Cousin !
"We had to flip the whole interface around." Ann Althouse 2008
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Tela inter media atque adversos detinet hostes; whilk verses Robertson of Struan, Chief of the Clan Donnochy (unless the claims of Lude ought to be preferred primo loco), has thus elegantly rendered: —
Waverley 2004
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The Comte du Lude then came forward with his customary
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And he fell into the arms of the young Advocate, of M. du Lude, and of
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He was about to continue, when Monsieur du Lude, taking out of his pocket, with an air of veneration, a small gold box, said that he had in it a relic left by his ancestors, and that though not doubting the fact of the possession, he wished to test it.
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"They surely will not dare to appear here again," said the Comte du Lude.
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Gondi, the Comte du Lude, and the Advocate Fournier, disguised as soldiers, workmen, and morris-dancers, armed with poniards under their clothes, had dispersed amid the crowd more than five hundred gentlemen and domestics, disguised like themselves.
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"Well, I will go with you," replied De Thou, conducting him into his cabinet, where were the Comte du Lude and Fournier, while he himself passed into his dressing-room.
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