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L'Adoubement, Edmund Blair Leighton, 1901 L'Adoubement, Edmund Blair Leighton, 1901

A process of ennoblement

01 October 1969 Article
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I can make whomever I please a duke, or a count; but blood alone can make a gentleman. (CHARLES-QUINT.) Nobility is not just an honor, it's also a change of state, despite the fact that many modern...
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