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There are two instances of Léonor de Montaigne in two chapters.
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method with my children, who all of them died at nurse, except Léonor, my only daughter, and who arrived to the age of six years and upward without …
continually representing it to them, to give them a distaste for it. My daughter, the only child I have, is now of an age that forward …