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Mazarin's Library
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where was all the history, ecclesiastic and profane, universal and special, of every nation; the three hundred and fifty volumes of manuscripts in folio, bound in flesh-coloured morocco, collected by Monsieur de Loménie; books on mathematics to the number of about thirty-five hundred volumes; the Fathers, Scholastics, controversies, sermons, books of the Louvre press, and almost all of the humanities; together with more books piled on the floors than could be contained in three rooms of a like size, and many large volumes of charts, prints, travels, voyages, tariffs, etc.
Then I showed him how the door on the side toward the ter-
