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This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. It promotes a eleven-volume book series about European court scandals and historical gossip. The text references **Jeanne Vaubermier (Madame du Barry)**, the historical mistress of King Louis XV of France, as a featured narrative. She's presented as a peasant girl who manipulated the "weak" king into making her the power behind the throne—a sensationalized account of her actual historical rise. The advertisement's appeal targets Judge's readers with promises of scandalous "hidden causes" of history: intimate secrets of kings, queens, and courtiers "stripped of their gilt and tinsel," revealing human flesh-and-blood beneath royal pretense. The pitch emphasizes lurid drama—"unbridled passions," conspiracies, and the "invisible government" behind historical events. The satire is implicit rather than explicit: the advertisement itself mocks the appetite for gossipy, sensationalized history while exploiting exactly that appetite to sell books. It's a self-aware advertisement exploiting reader desire for court intrigue and scandal.

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litle Money, lust of power, ~Chi, jealousy and hate— rig 1 It was to such agencies as these, and her ‘om beauty and wonderful charm, that Jeanne and |) Vaubernier, a child of the provinces, and later _ | leader in the gay life of Paris, owed her ele- a | vation to the position of ‘‘Left-Hand Queen i of France.” Read her own story of how the ye. | one-time peasant girl schemed and won her ) way to the heart of the King of France---how she swayed the mind of the weak Louis XV and became the real ruler of France---as she tells it in But this is only one of hundreds of narratives—equally as dramatic—equally as amt Hf interesting—contained in the eleven sumptuous volumes that make up tl t, a limited number of which war conditions in the trade | made it possible for us to secure at our own figure and offer to readers of Judge at = An Extraordinary Bargain Price pert Our former offer is now supplemented by this, on easier tertis,as we have bought up the only remaining stock of this work in existence—less than 400 sets—BUT we can offer readers of Judge of. | JUST THIS ONE OPPORTUNITY to secure these wonderful books AT THIS PRICE AND . § ON EASY TERMS. Discriminating book-buyers are not going to let these sets remain long on our shelves at this price and these terms, for bear in mind These ARE NOT the Ordinary Subscription Books You Are Familiar With THE PUBLISHER'S pi pecially cast for edition—is bold and ¢ of these eleven volumes ing examples of the J highest craftsmanship in bookmaking. ely E ILLUSTRATIONS ere in photogravure on na et ‘ellum, These Eleven Volumes Sparkle With Life— & A life that transcends the imagination of a workaday world—the extravagant, luxurious life of courts, the life of camps amid all the pomp and circumstance of war—even the gay life of the Pare-Aux-Serfs—all told in stories as comic, tragic, mean, strange as any ever told in the pages. of fiction—stories tingling with the electric currents of unbridled passions, stories of men and women whose names are written large in the pages of history, and that show as no others do The HIDDEN CAUSES of Great Historical Events ings, queens, courtiers and favorites—with no thought of publication— NDING is a silk-finished buckram, with ‘ellum title, The size of the volumes if 644 The set contains Japan inches wide by 9}% inches high, 4.548 pages, lives, and show the hidden -auses found behind almost every event ne hidden agents that made up the “invisible government. be Fi A PE yA NASTY: the enamored Louis by a thousand playful capers and d, y : impudent tricks. We see in these memoirs the hid- XV. in the person of La Du Bar den court | fe of old France, and the secret causes of out residing over little suppers her swift tlescent to the bl th imirtments, or in Cour if Stat rehed on Revolation along a pathw: a of the monarch’s chair, distracting the mind of bandboxes and rouge-pots, Stripped of Their Gilt and Tinsel these representatives of Earth's power and grandcur stan revealed in these wonderful | a) pages as flesh and blood men and women, as they tell of their cherished ambitious and secret lovesand hates. But to get all this wonderful lore of a life so full of strong contrasts—heights of heroism and depths of folly—so rich in all the elements of romance he You Must Be Prompt—Send Coupon To-day Remember there are over 500,000 Readers of Judge and less than 400 of I » y these Sets (the only sets of this edition in existence) and that the Price is less than one-quarter of the Publisher’s price, and easy terms of payment and money back if rot satisfied. PERMIT ME, MADAME LA COMTESSE The Memoirs and Secret Chronicles of the fi Courts of Europe Titles of These Eleven Sumptuous Volumes and a Partial List of Historical Characters Vol. I.—Memotrs and Confessions of Comtesse Du Barry, With Intimate Details of Her Entire Career as Favorite of Louis XV. Jean Jacques Rousseau—Voltaire — Maréchal De Richelieu—Czar Veter of Russia—Due De Choiseul—The Rohans, Vols. II, III, IV.—Memotrs of the Court of Louis XIV. and the Regency. 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