
The Runaway Duchess
Noble Blood
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Hortense's Husband, Armand, Was a Downright Terror
15 year old hortense married a 29 year old man named armand charles de la more de la milliere. Armand became the new duc de mazarin, and with the combined wealth of his new bride, became one of the richest men in europe. Hortens inherited from her uncle a vast art collection of masterpieces, paint s and sculptures. Her husband raced through the halls of the palace using a knife to cut or scratch over the exposed genitals of any nude paintings and chipping away at the nude sculptures. He also had in mind that milking cows was too erotic for women. The utters, he believed would lure them into immorality. Even
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