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She claimed descent from the royal family.
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She had a pretty good education.
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She had important protectors.
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She marries an officer of rather dubious noble title,
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who was called, quite forgettably, the Marquis de la Motte.
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He met the fifty-year-old cardinal called Louis de Rohan,
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whose name I should have put on there, R-O-H-A-N.
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He was from a very famous old family called Rohan Soubise.
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The national archives used to be
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and now they're adjacent to it in this fabulous old--
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why don't they ever have things that work in here?
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It's just unbelievable.