Excerpt from The Secret Correspondence of Madame De Maintenon, With the Princess Des Ursins, Vol. 1 of 3: From the Original Manuscripts in the Possession of the Duke De Choiseul; Translated From the French
Although her family was impoverished, and her father unfortunate, she was honourably de scended; for her grandfather, Theodore Agrippa d'aubigné, was one of the chiefs of the French protestants, and a correct historian of the civil wars. The house of Bourbon was indebted to him, and his coadj utors, for placing them on the throne of France; a deed which has been repaid by intolerance, persecution, and ingra titude.
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