354:. She appeared in court during the case against Louis de Rohan alongside the rest of the Rohan clan, dressed in black, and when the judges arrived, she reportedly rose and proclaimed: "Messieurs, you have come to judge us all!"
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1497:. Stockholm: Norstedts Förlag AB.
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373:Ancestors of Marie Louise de Rohan
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234:Louis de France, Duke of Burgundy
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462:17. Marie de Bretagne d'Avaugour
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86:Gaston Jean Baptiste de Lorraine
852:Marie Louise Geneviève de Rohan
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18:Marie Louise Geneviève de Rohan
1744:Élisabeth Marguerite d'Orléans
1695:Henriette Catherine de Joyeuse
1685:Marguerite-Philippe du Cambout
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352:Affair of the Diamond Necklace
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1620:Princess Christina of Denmark
1439:The Court of France 1789-1830
1415:Gillispie. Charles Coulston:
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1852:19th-century French nobility
1847:18th-century French nobility
1842:Ancien RĂ©gime office-holders
1722:Claude-Françoise of Lorraine
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1493:Joan Haslip (1991).
1351:References and notes
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