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  • [4] Composed after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, during a period of renewed persecutions against the Huguenots, the Mémoires pour servir à la vie d'Agrippa d'Aubigné glorify the courtier, warrior, man of action, and servant to the king and furnish an image consistent with his descendant's wishes.

    Louis XIV's Secret Wife 2010

  • [4] Composed after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, during a period of renewed persecutions against the Huguenots, the Mémoires pour servir à la vie d'Agrippa d'Aubigné glorify the courtier, warrior, man of action, and servant to the king and furnish an image consistent with his descendant's wishes.

    Louis XIV's Secret Wife 2010

  • She is the one who petitioned the court this morning not only for temporary custody of those children but, if we can show you what she said in her court filings, that, indeed, she wants to have sole custody, saying that she is the descendant's mother, and the petition seeking appointment as administration is the mother of the descendant.

    CNN Transcript Jun 29, 2009 2009

  • She intends to marshal assets of the descendant -- Michael Jackson, obviously -- for the exclusive use of the descendant's three children -- her grandchildren -- after payment of those debts and expensive of administration.

    CNN Transcript Jun 29, 2009 2009

  • In the Varun Gandhi videos, Hindu extremist groups like the Taliban-inspired anti-statue, anti-woman Sri Ram Sena may feel as if they've found a high-profile voice: Varun is the grandson of late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, and the great-grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister, a declared secularist and atheist who couldn't have been more removed from his descendant's crazed religion-fueled nationalist diatribes.

    Ali A. Rizvi: Religious Fundamentalism Spreads... Beyond Islam 2009

  • Pharroh instituted/nurtured resistance is African and their descendant's worst enemy.

    DesignerBlog Will 2008

  • Sometimes, when there was no male heir, a female descendant's husband might inherit on condition that he assumed her family name as an alias.

    'Shakespeare's Wife' 2008

  • Pharroh instituted/nurtured resistance is African and their descendant's worst enemy.

    Guest Blogger Explains Halloween Anne Johnson 2007

  • Pharroh instituted/nurtured resistance is African and their descendant's worst enemy.

    Espresso for All My Friends! Doppelganger 2007

  • Pharroh instituted/nurtured resistance is African and their descendant's worst enemy.

    Just Do It Pilgrimage to Self 2007

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