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Paperback Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know: The Extraordinary Exploits of the British and European Aristocracy Book

ISBN: 1472136691

ISBN13: 9781472136695

Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know: The Extraordinary Exploits of the British and European Aristocracy

The alarming history of the British, and European, aristocracy - from Argyll to Wellington and from Byron to Tolstoy, stories of madness, murder, misery, greed and profligacy.

From Regency playhouses, to which young noblemen would go simply in order to insult someone to provoke a duel that might further their reputation, to the fashionable gambling clubs or 'hells' which were springing up around St James's in the mid-eighteenth century,...

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