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Kings And Near-kings

Talleyrand. By Duff Cooper. (Cape. 12s. 6d. ) THE Abbey of Bee in Normandy provides one of the more pleasant of the ironies of history. Its first abbot was Lanfranc, its second......

The Victorian Sunset

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