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Those who described the French as being truly of German origin did them more honour than those who believed they were descended from the
Trojans, since honour is due only to virtue. For no nation has suffered so little corruption of its morality, nor striven so mightily and for so long to maintain
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ordered du Tillet to bring organization to the royal archives, he seems to have been too busy using them to have advanced far in that task. He died just six weeks before his brother the bishop.
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The Aryan Myth: A History of Racist and
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