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A25235 The Ambitious practices of France, or, A relation of the ways and methods used by them to attain to that supreame grandeur as also, the secret intrigues of the French king's ministers at the courts of most of the princes and states of Europe : with remarks thereupon, and some reflections on the interest of those princes. 1689 (1689) Wing A2949; ESTC R8728 42,003 71

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