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Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency

By: The Duke of Saint Simon

...e of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any pur- pose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Du... ...n the old Rhine, in the army com- manded by the Marechal Duc de Lorges. In 1691 I was studying my philosophy and beginning to learn to ride at an acad... ...der of the castle, was now entirely in our power, was one of the strongest places in the Low Countries, and had hitherto boasted of having never chang... ...wards Paris. On the way a little circumstance happened. One of our halting-places was Marienburgh, where we camped for the night. I had become united ... ...ther (to the great grief of the latter; who doted upon this daughter), and established her in a house of his own adjoining the Assumption, in the Faub... ...Metz to the nephew of M. d’Orleans; and by this means a reconciliation was established. M. d’Orleans and M. de la Rochefoucauld joined hands again, an... ...count of the cel- ebrated Papal decree which has made so many martyrs, de- populated our schools, introduced ignorance, fanaticism, and misrule, rewar...

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