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  • Then Charles X abdicated again, this time in favor of the son of the duchess de Berri, the Miracle Child, who was nine years old then and known as the comte de Chambord.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • Then Charles X abdicated again, this time in favor of the son of the duchess de Berri, the Miracle Child, who was nine years old then and known as the comte de Chambord.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • Then Charles X abdicated again, this time in favor of the son of the duchess de Berri, the Miracle Child, who was nine years old then and known as the comte de Chambord.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • Whereupon Manicamp, dreamy and absent as usual, answered, thinking that some one was asking him about De Guiche, "Thank you, the comte is a little better."

    Louise de la Valliere Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

  • Whereupon Manicamp, dreamy and absent as usual, answered, thinking that some one was asking him about De Guiche, "Thank you, the comte is a little better."

    The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

  • A descendant of a bastard of Henry II of France, Jeanne de Valois had after many affairs married a soi-disant so-called comte de Lamotte, and lived on a small pension which the king granted her.

    The affair of the necklace de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • A descendant of a bastard of Henry II of France, Jeanne de Valois had after many affairs married a soi-disant so-called comte de Lamotte, and lived on a small pension which the king granted her.

    Archive 2007-09-30 de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • (afterwards known as the comte de Chambord), grandson of Charles X., and when the king abdicated in 1830, Barrande accompanied the royal exiles to

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various

  • Note: The usual confusion between 'comte' and 'comte.'

    The Chronicles of Froissart 1523

  • "'But,' said the king, in astonishment, 'I believe the comte is your friend?'

    Louise de la Valliere Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

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