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A34768 The French spy, or, The memoirs of John Baptist de la Fontaine, Lord of Savoy and Fontenai, late brigadier and surveyor of the French King's army, now a prisoner in the Bastile containing many secret transactions relating both to England and France / tr. from the French original, printed at Cologn in the year 1699.; Mémoires de Jean-Baptiste de La Fontaine. English Courtilz de Sandras, Gatien, 1644-1712. 1700 (1700) Wing C6597A; ESTC R2705 273,497 404

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