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Royalist Manifesto. With Paris editors predicting that "the Daladier Cabinet may last three months-or three days," Monseigneur Le Duc de Guise, who would be King Jean III of France if enthroned, manifestoed as follows from his Manoir d' Anjou near Brussels...
...great families of the stage are the last dynasties that exercise the divine rights. So Miss Dane promptly moved the time up a century or so and changed the name of her heroes to Broome, for Plantagenet was first given as a nick-name to Geoffrey of Anjou because he always were a spring of broom...
Died. Don Jaime of Bourbon (Jaime Juan Carlos Alfonso Felipe de Bourbon-Anjou), 61, Carlist pretender to the Spanish throne, cousin of deposed King Alfonso XIII; of a heart attack; in Pans...
...lead bad lives, with the great fat trollops you keep!" With England he fought, when he thought he could win; made treaties, when he thought he could win that way. When the great Houses of Burgundy, Bourbon, Brittany, Lorraine, Artois, Alençon, Armagnac, Anjou leagued against him, he played them off one against the other, overcame them gradually by force, craft or bribery. When he died, at 60, he left a united France and a dynasty that lasted for 300 years...
This fascinating book is a Practical guide as well as a delightful volume to read. It takes the reader from Angers, the ancient capital of Anjou, to Poitiers, the Limousin, the Velay, Auvergne, and the Bourbons to Bourges in the Berry, including not only the chief towns, but the picturesque countryside. With over 200 Illustrations, boxed...