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The ten-year-old got away from a royal castle disguised as a bundle of hay.
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Jacques Cartier made history and made friends along the St Lawrence, but then threw all that goodwill away.
From the Bayeux Tapestry, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
William the Conqueror’s chaplain used to tell this story to those who doubted his master’s claim to the English crown.
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Benjamin Disraeli revealed the secret behind holding one’s place at the top of Parisian society.
By the Revd Thomas Streatfield (1777-1848), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
Whenever Charles Dickens felt his exhausting workload was starting to take its toll, he knew just what to do.
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The diplomat’s task is to see the best in other peoples, not to scold them for their failings.
By an Anonymous artist (1816), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
The night before the Comte de Lavalette was to be executed, his wife Émilie came to visit him with a proposal that left him speechless.