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JULIA [SARAH FRANCES See also: American actress, was See also: born near See also: Keswick, See also: England, on the 17th of See also: August 187o, and went with her See also: family to See also: America in 1875
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Her first formal appearance on the stage was in New See also: York in 1887, although she had before that travelled with a juvenile See also: opera See also: company in H.M.S
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Pinafore, and afterwards was given such parts as Maria in Twelfth See also: Night in See also: Miss Josephine See also: Riley's travelling company
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Her first See also: great success was as Parthenia in Ingomar, and her subsequent presentations of Rosalind, Viola, and Julia in The Hunchback confirmed her position as a " See also: star." In 1894 she married Robert Taber, an actor, with whom she played until their See also: divorce in 1900
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Subsequently she had great success as See also: Barbara Frietchie in See also: Clyde Fitch's See also: play of that name, and other dramas; and from 1904 to 1907 she acted with E
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See also: Sothern in a notable series of See also: Shakespeare plays, as well as in See also: modern drama
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MARLY-LE-ROI, a See also: village of See also: northern See also: France in the department of See also: Seine-et-See also: Oise, 5 M
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N. by W. of See also: Versailles by road
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Pop
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(1906), 1409
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Notwithstanding some See also: fine country houses, Marly is dull and unattractive, and owes all its celebrity to the sumptuous chateau built towards the end of the 17th century by See also: Louis XIV., and now destroyed
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It was originally designed as a See also: simple hermitage to which the See also: king could occasionally retire with a few of his more intimate
See also: friends from the pomp of Versailles, but gradually it See also: grew until it became one of the most ruinous extravagances of the See also: Grand Monarque
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The central See also: pavilion (inhabited by the king himself) and its twelve subsidiary pavilions were intended to suggest the See also: sun surrounded by the signs of the zodiac
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Seldom visited by Louis XV., and wholly abandoned by Louis XVI., it was demolished after the Revolution, its See also: art treasures having previously been dispersed, and the remains now consist of a large See also: basin, the Abreuvoir, a few mouldering ivy-grown walls, some traces of parterres with magnificent trees, the See also: park, and the See also: forest of 82 sq. m., one of the most pleasant promenades of the neighbourhood of See also: Paris, containing the See also: shooting preserves of the President of the Republic
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Close to the Seine, See also: half-way between Marly-le-Roi and St Germain, is the village of See also: Port-Marly, and one mile farther up is the See also: hamlet of Marly-la-Machine
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Here, in 1684, an immense See also: hydraulic See also: engine, driven by the current of the See also: river, was erected; it raised the See also: water to a high tower, where the aqueduct of Marly began (700 yds. in length, 75 in height, with 36 See also: arches, still well-preserved), carrying the See also: waters of the Seine to Versailles
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