The present state of France containing a general description of that kingdom corrected and purged from the many gross mistakes in the French copy, enriched with additional observations and remarks of the new compiler, and digested into a method conformable to that of the state of England / by R.W. ...
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The present state of France containing a general description of that kingdom corrected and purged from the many gross mistakes in the French copy, enriched with additional observations and remarks of the new compiler, and digested into a method conformable to that of the state of England / by R.W. ...
Author
Wolley, Richard, fl. 1667-1694.
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London :: Printed for Gilbert Cownly ...,
1687.
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France -- Court and courtiers.
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"The present state of France containing a general description of that kingdom corrected and purged from the many gross mistakes in the French copy, enriched with additional observations and remarks of the new compiler, and digested into a method conformable to that of the state of England / by R.W. ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A27526.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 10, 2024.
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CHAP. II.
Of Dukes and Peers.
OF Dukes and of Peers severally, and of such as are both Dukes and Peers, there are six or seven sorts.
1. The Antient Dukes and Peers: 2. The Dukes and Peers, verified in the Parliament of Paris, as both Dukes and Peers. 3. Such as are verified in the said Parliament, only as Dukes. 4. The Dukes, or the Dukes and Peers that are verified as such in other Parliaments than that of Paris, which is the only true Court of Peers. 5. Those who are Dukes and Peers only by Patent under the Great Seal, not verified, or past yet in any Parliament. 6. The Dukes and Peers by Brief, as the House of Clermont-Tonnerre.
Besides which, there are some Dukes of Foreign
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Creations, as in the County of Avignon, under the Pope; and several other Persons, who though they be no Princes nor Princesses, yet are suffred by his Majesty, to enjoy the Honours of the Louvre, as to enter into the Louvre in their Coaches, and their Ladies have the priviledge of the Low-stool, or Ta∣bouret, before the Queen, without having any Dutchy, or Patent for any.
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