Joe Perry-Highlands
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Joe Perry-Highlands
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Blue eyed white dragon. 🏴🏴🇮🇪 "miss silver linings" – 𐎤𐎢𐎽𐎢𐏁.



Isaac Smith to John Adams in 1771 on Louis XV, and the influence French mistresses had on politics: "To so sensible a nation as the french, it must be a most mortifying circumstance, that the revolutions of their government are often dependent on the amours of their monarch."








– acc. to la Duchesse Douairière d’Orléans, a missive wr. afore 26 Mar. 1722, by Françoise de Mailly-Rubempré and for her husband in Scipion-Sidoine, Vicomte de Polignac; a summary de la lois française surr. paternité, naming, despite his lack of the former in her then-pregnancy:




Infidelity should carry the death penalty for women. Maybe a fine or something for men.































