Judge, 1916-12-02 · page 2 of 36
Judge — December 2, 1916 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising, not satire or political commentary**. The dominant content is a multi-volume book set advertisement for "Secret Histories of Royalty: Edition des Ambassadeurs," marketed as exposés of European court scandals and royal misdeeds. The engraving shows an 18th-century court scene, likely depicting the decadence being promised in the books. The text explicitly mentions **Mademoiselle Lange** and references **Louis XV's court in France**, positioning these volumes as revealing "secret" accounts of royal scandals, affairs, and corruption. The advertisement emphasizes these are "without equal in the world of romance and historic incident." The offer—$1.00 for eleven volumes—is presented as an exceptional bargain, targeting readers interested in sensational historical gossip about European royalty. This is essentially a mail-order book club pitch, not political satire.
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GOOD OLD DAYS the courts of Europe were the stage where the whole political and human drama of the country was enacted The conscious nether world revelled in envious awe as it got glimpses of those dis- tant spheres of Royalty, and gloried as it found their demigodded denizens frail. Under Louis XV. the court of France be- came an ante-chamber, or dressing-room, | littered with the bandboxes and_ rouge- pots of the royal mistresses, and the mon- archy of old France made its final exit from the stage leaning on the arm of a courtesan, Mademoiselle Lange, was known in the underworld of Paris— but read the whole story, as she tells it herself, with all the naiveté of a moral sister to Manon Lescaut in as she SECRET HISTORIES OF ROYALTY EDITION DES AMBASSADEURS An Unprecedented Bargain Titles of The Eleven Sumptuous Volumes and A Partial List of Historical Characters Vol. 1.—Memoirs and Confessions of Comtesse Du Barry, With Intimate Details of Her Entire Career as Favorite of Louls Joan Jacques Rousseau Vo Je Richelieu—Caar Peter of R C The Rohans. Vols. VI, VII, VIIL—Memolrs of Napo- leon, as Soldier, Emperor, Husband. By MADAME JUNOT Empress Josephine—Fouché— Marsh ‘alleyrand — Queen Ho Alexander e—Maréchal Murat Duc De Vols. 11, 111, 1V.—Memoirsof theCourt Vol. IX.—Secret Memoirs of the Court of Louis XiV. and the Regency. of Bertin. By the DUC DE. SAINT SIMON Madam L ecret Memoirs of the Royal of France. By PRINCESS LAMBALLE Friend and Confidant of Queen Marie Antoi- netle La Payette—Robespierre— Necker—Pope Pius VI. Maria Thi Madame Camp: A MAGNIFICENT By COMTE DE Prederick the Great—Empress Catherine II. The Duke of Branswick—Mademoise!l Voss—Goertz —Prince Potemkin. MIRABEAU XI.—Memoirs of the Courts of les 1. and Charles II., and the Protectorate. The Deary of JOUN EVELYN Colonel Blood: HOLIDAY GIFT ince Rupert Only $1.00 Now and Coupon To secure one of these matchless sets BRUNSWICK SUBSCRIPTION CO. Brunswick Bldg., New York City Address Occupation a discount of over 70’; from the regular price. Koyal avo one 6% x0! ta Koval Royalty in Undress our own day, so to speak. have the hem their lives or their liberty h: Had Louis XLV. known wh: e read those pages in w scandal of Versailles—could he have seen his bri tinsel, and his own royal person pictured nut his wig—there would have been a new loder | ni 5 ybody Duke ° rored all the court intra stripped th takes its plots and the novelist his ch Volumes That Sparkle With Life histories of kings, q' pred the national trad ity owes more subst tacular lives ¢ with their sham blush fully ¢ Less Than 80 Sets Left of This Edition, Specially Made Fora Foreign Market, Now Available As They'll Go Fast, Mail Coupon Today — In Time