Word: alengon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pointed. In a glass case they saw something looking like a maltreated strip of buckskin shoelace or a shriveled eel. It was a mummified tendon taken from Napoleon's body at the postmortem. Then there were locks of Napoleon's hair, his white breeches, a flounce of Alengon lace from Marie Louise's wedding dress, a baby dress worn by L'Aiglon (Napoleon's only legitimate child), a death mask of Napoleon cast in bronze from the papier maché matrix made by his doctor, Antommarchi; innumerable letters, prints, cartoons, snuff boxes, medals, etc. Most...
...Duke d'Alengon.) For you are brother to the King of France, who is childless, and I am so advanced in years that you can hardly hope to have a child by me, and my doctors warn me that if I have a child I shall die in childbed, and that is out of the question. This apart, I may live yet so many years that if after my death you married again you might not be able to beget children...