The Ranums' Panat Times
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The Ranums' Panat Times
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to opening page of Ranums' Panat Times Some Fugitive Pieces involving
Mlle de Guise and her family:
Sometimes nothing seems more "fugitive" than the clue you are searching for in the Minutier Central des Notaires at the Archives nationales of Paris. Patricia has therefore begun to "publish" her summaries of actes involving Marie de Lorraine, Duchess of Guise. These summaries were made during the 1990s as she went through each liasse of papers, act by act, and read the introductory section of the act. Taken as a whole, these acts created, for Patricia, an image of the famous and "magnificent" Mlle de Guise; and although few of these acts are specifically discussed in her Portraits around Marc-Antoine Charpentier, they shaped her entire presentation of the different members of the House of Guise. On coaches and the young Duke's preparation for military service, 1668 Acts involving Isabelle d'Orleans, "Mme de Guise"
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