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[quote=BranShea]In 1964 princes Irene of the Netherlands denounced her rights in second line to the throne to marry without consent the Roman-Catholic Carlos-Hugo de Bourbon-Parma, one of the then pretenders to the Spanish throne.He was the leader of the Carlists. He lost his game of thrones to the Orléans branch.
Wasn't there a Bourbon Steet in New Orleans? {/quote]
There also was a Bourbon Street in Charlotte until recently. A new rapid transit rail system essentially eradicated it except for a very small cul de sac. I've not been past the intersection of late, so I don't know if it is still named Bourbon or not.
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so I don't know if it is still named Bourbon or not.According to Google Maps, it's still there ( link).
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Thanks, but I moved to Jefferson : the Snopeses' salient tale: The Town, The Mansion. I'm much impressed by this great literature I never knew of till now.
So I want to place right here for free two handcopied fragments for your pleasure or displeasure.
CHARLES MALLISON
[And even if he located them ten minutes later and dragged
her- "Drug," I said.
"-back, the-What?" he said.
"Drug." I said. "You said 'dragged'."
Ratliff looked at me a while. "For ten years now, whenever he would stop talking his-self long enough that is, and for five years of them I been listening to you too, trying to learn-teach myself to say words right. And, jest when I call myself about to learn and I begin to feel good over it, here you come, of all people, correcting me back to what I been trying for ten years to forget."
"I'm sorry, "I said. "I didn' t mean it that way. It's because I like the way you say it. When you say it, 'taken' sounds a heap more took then just 'took', just like 'drug' sounds a heap more dragged than just 'dragged'.
"And not jest you neither," Ratliff said. "your uncle too:
me saying 'dragged' and him saying 'drug' and me saying 'dragged' and him saying 'drug' again, until at last he would say, 'In a free country like this, why aint I got as much right as you to use your drug for my dragged as you got to use my dragged for your drug?' "]
GAVIN STEVENS
[ Because remember, he (Flem Snopes) didn't merely know that banks could be robbed ( vise his cousin Byron which he had witnessed himself), he believed, it was the tenet of his very being, that they were constantly looted; that the normal condition of a bank was a steady and decorous embezzlement, its solvency an impregnable illusion like the reputation of a woman who everybody knows has none yet which is intact and invulnerable because of etc....
..... Because that- the looting of them- was the reason for banks, the only reason why anybody would go to the trouble and expense of organising one and keeping it running.]
(love the banking parts seen in the light of ect.)
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