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>> Brie Carlisle: Welcome to Byte at a time books where we read you your
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>> Brie Carlisle: Values today well be
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continuing.
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Les miserables by Victor
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Hugo chapter
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four a centenarian
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aspirant, he had
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taken prizes in his boyhood at the College of
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Moulins, where he was born, and he
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had been crowned by the hand of the duc de Nirines,
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whom he called the duc de nevers.
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Neither the convention, nor the death of Louis
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XVI, nor the Napoleon, nor the
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return of the Bourbons, nor anything else had been able to
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efface the memory of this crowning. The duc de
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nevers was, in his eyes, the great
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figure of the century. What a charming, grand
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seigneur, he said, and what a fine
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air he had with his blue ribbon in
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the eyes of Monsieur Gillenormand. Catherine
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II had made reparation for the crime of the partition of
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Poland by purchasing for 3000 rubles
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the secret of the elixir of gold from Bustoshev.
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Hegel animated on this subject. The
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elixir of gold. He exclaimed. The yellow dye
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of Bustaschev. General Lamotte's drops in the
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18th century. This was the great
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remedy, for the catastrophes of love, the
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panacea against Venus at, one Louis
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the half ounce phial. Louis XV
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sent 200 phials of it to the pope.
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He would have been greatly irritated and thrown off his balance
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had anyone told him that the elixir of gold is
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nothing but the perchloride of iron. Monsieur de
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Lenormand adored the Bourbons and had a
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horror of 1789. He was
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forever narrating in what manner he had saved himself during the
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terror and how he had been obliged to display a vast
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deal of gaiety and cleverness in order to
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escape having his head cut off. If any
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young man ventured to pronounce a eulogium on the republic
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and his presence, he turned purple and
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grew so angry that he was on the point of swooning.
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He sometimes alluded to his 90 years and said, I
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hope that I shall not see 93 twice.
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On these occasions, he hinted to people that he meant to
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live to be 100.
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Thank you for joining bite at a time books today while we
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read a bite of one of your favorite classics.
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Again, my name is Brie Carlisle and.
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>> Brie Carlisle: I hope you come back tomorrow for.
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>> Brie Carlisle: The next bite of Le Miserable.
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>> Brie Carlisle: Dont forget to sign up for our
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>> Brie Carlisle: M
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many adventures and mountains
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we can climb
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take your word forward, line by
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line, one bite at a time.
