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Excerpt from General Biography, or Lives of the Most Eminent Persons of All Ages, Countries, Conditions, and Professions: Arranged According to Alphabetical Order
A D E [supp/em. Adding to the store he had collected to the end of life. He petitioned the king for a spacious apartment in the Louvre for the arrangement of his cabinet, but only obtained an addition to his pension; and his unabated ardour led him to propose to accompany Peyrouse in his voyage round the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
