Word: evremond
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...describes her receiving, in the convent to which she had been temporarily remanded by the Queen of France, a visit from the extraordinary Queen Christina of Sweden. The crowd of shadowy gallants that at all times surrounded her are dexterously manipulated. Ninon's long friendship with M. de Saint-Evremond is made real and splendid, as is that curious moment when the old lady stretched a wrinkled hand to touch, like a godmother who bestows an inheritance of her magic, the small sticky paw of Voltaire, then a monkeyish brat. Ironical, Romantic...
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