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“The Comtesse's fellow prisoners in this antechamber to death were characteristic of the ill-assorted gatherings thrown together in Revolutionary prisons: duchesses and prostitutes, actresses…

— Stanley Loomis

“Mais c'est renfantillage - this is childishness!' we heard de Grandin pant as we closed in and sought a chance to seize his skeleton-like…

— Seabury Quinn

“In the year of Christ 1571, at the age of thirty-eight, on the last day of February, anniversary of his birth, Michel de Montaigne,…

— Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592

“history informs us that the passage of dethroned monarchs is short from prison to the grave.”18”

— Harlow Giles Unger

“We all know about Father Damien, the French priest who voluntarily forsook the world and went to the leper island of Molokai to labor…

— Mark Twain

“The captain’s eyes betrayed what his countenance must conceal: the anguish of an ancient being who must honour his birthright by living beyond those…

— Michelle Franklin

“Marcellus, bishop of Rome, being banished on account of his faith, fell a martyr to the miseries he suffered in exile, 16th Jan. A.…

— John Foxe

“killed Lady Elizabeth de Royans and a female servant during the night. The”

— Kathryn Le Veque

“... I opened the door to a knock and found a ashen-faced messenger quailing at the prospect of facing an undead witch who was,…

— Sara Poole

“And when the Duke of Alva ordered three hundred Citizens to be put to Death together at Antwerp, a Lady who saw the Sight…

— Peter Ackroyd

“There's blood pounding through the Duke's head. Knighthood is glory, he's thinking, not just grace in the saddle and at swordplay, but courage enough…

— Vanora Bennett

“The rich never give you anything (dixit A.). Wealth is unrelenting; it always screws you. Those who are rich in intelligence, power and beauty…

— Jean Baudrillard