duc
noun C2- A French duke.
Plural ducs
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“There wasn’t any trouble over treaties when it was a question of shooting the poor Duc d’Enghien.”
“Do you know, my dear Villefort,” cried the Comte de Salvieux, “that is exactly what I myself said the other day at the Tuileries, when questioned by his majesty’s principal chamberlain touching the singularity of an alliance between the son of a Girondin and the daughter of an officer of the Duc de Condé; and I assure you he seemed fully to comprehend that this mode of reconciling political differences was based upon sound and excellent principles.
de Villefort,” said Louis XVIII., “the Duc de Blacas assures me you have some interesting information to communicate.”
“Oh, sire,” exclaimed the Duc de Blacas, “M.
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