The Duc De Lauzun And The Court Of Louis Xv From The French

Author : Gaston Maugras
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780666888938
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (889 download)

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Download or read book The Duc De Lauzun written by Gaston Maugras and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-04 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Duc De Lauzun: And the Court of Louis XV The second argument is not less easily disposed of. Lauzun, it is said, was too much a gentleman to 0 compromise intentionally so many women of rank. In our day, it is true, the accusation would be a particularly grave one. But it was not so in the eighteenth century. The man who boasted of his conquests was regarded perhaps as wanting in good taste, but he was not otherwise thought ill of, for far less importance attached to moral lapses in those days than in these. And after all, though Lauzun was indiscreet, did he commit the serious crime of compromising undoubted virtue or tarnish ing spotless reputations? Almost all the women whose favours he complacently records were not novices in such matters; we have only to open a volume of any memoirs of the period to read a full narrative of their adventures. 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.