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The Comte de Clermont

The Nineteenth Century vol.27 no.159

May 1890 pp.803-822

Ferdinand James Anselm de Rothschild

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A history of the dissolute Comte de Clermont (1709-1771), a younger son of the nobility, who became an abbot, soldier and voluptuary. Ferdinand presents him as typical of the class who helped precipitate the French Revolution.

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