Judge — November 24, 1917 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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November 24, 1917 SM MTL Tel LST a Fact That Puts Fiction To ‘The ‘Blush| Who Was He-—this loncly figure standing on the rampart of a castle on an island off the coast of France who personifies one of the greatest mysteries, one of the most inexplicable crimes of history? Why after over two hundred years does he still excite such intense interest and retain so strong a hold on the imagination? Why does he always arouse a fecling of terror that will not down? What was his past? Was it the dissolute life of the courtier? Was it the intrigues of the diplomat? Did some fair one within the hallowed circle of royalty love not wisely but too well? 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