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[56] “Peter the Great,” 1884, vol. i. pp. 135-137, 271.
[57] “Don Sebastian,” by Martha Walker Freer, 1864, p. 300.
[58] Prescott and Robertson, “History of the Reign of Charles V.,” vol. ii. pp. 526, 551-552.
[59] Dr. Doran’s “Monarchs Retired from Business,” 1857, vol. i. p. 321.
[60] See Soulavie’s “Historical and Political Memoirs of the Reign of Louis XVI.”
[61] Ibid.
[62] Sir David Brewster’s “Lectures on Natural Magic.”
[63] Miss Pardoe, “Louis XIV. and the Court of France,” vol. iii. pp. 4-5.
[64] D’Israeli’s “Curiosities of Literature,” vol. i. p. 242.