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Conservative Thought in the Old South. A Review Article

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Michael O'Brien
Michael O'Brien
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Miami University of Ohio
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 34 , Issue 3 , July 1992 , pp. 566 - 576
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1992

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9 See, for example, William Henry Trescot to William Porcher Miles, 13 November 1853, William Porcher Miles Papers, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. This tells an anecdote, drawn from the life of Marie-Angélique, Duchesse de Fontanges (a mistress of Louis XIV), about a riddle told at Versailles to an innocent virgin, to which the answer was “a vagina.”