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The Alhambra and the Kremlin : the south and north of Europe (1873)

Prime, Samuel Irenaeus, 1812-1885 · New York : Anson D.F. Randolph · leaf 199

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169 GENEVA. Baron Rothschild has a splendid palace on the opposite shore. Voltaire’s house, and the residence of the Empress Josephine, are also there. The shores, as we go up the lake, are covered with vineyards, and every village that we pass … D’Aubigne’s Birthplace and Residence. is marked with some features of historical interest. Madame de Stael formerly resided at Coppet, a little village where is a Roman tombstone with this inscription, “ Vixi ut vivis : morieris ut sum mortuus : sic vita traditur, vale viator et abi in rem tuam.”…

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