A Modern Aladdin; Or, The Wonderful Adventures of Oliver Munier
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    A Modern Aladdin; Or, The Wonderful Adventures of Oliver Munier
                                            
                            By Howard Pyle
                            
                                19 Feb, 2020                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        Nothing could have been more sudden than his advent. One day he was unheard of; the next, all the world talked of him, gazed at him, and wondered. Great people adopted him and made much of him; courtiers and cabinet ministers bowed to him; the king p
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                                                Nothing could have been more sudden than his advent. One day he was unheard of; the next, all the world talked of him, gazed at him, and wondered. Great people adopted him and made much of him; courtiers and cabinet ministers bowed to him; the king petted him, talked with him in his privy closet by the hour, and held long and intimate discourse with him. He possessed the rare and distinguished privilege of a free and familiar entrée to Madame de Pompadour's dressing-room—a crowning honor, and one only enjoyed by the greatest and most favored courtiers. Less