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History of Friedrich II. of Prussia
Vol. XV. (of XXI.)

CHAPTER XI
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Exquisite Burlesque, PALLADION itself, is in _OEuvres,_ xi.

192-271 (see IB.

139): a bad copy of that very bad Original, JEANNE D'ARC,--the only thing now good in it, Friedrich's polite yet positive refusal to gratify King Louis and his Pompdour with a sight of it (see IB.

PREFACE, x-xiv, Friedrich's Letter to Louis; date of request and of refusal, March, 1750).]--Let us attend his Majesty's exit from Bohemia..


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