CHAPTER XVIII
For the last two or three years the King of Spain
had been in very weak health, and in danger of his
life several times. He had no children, and
no hope of having any. The ...
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BOOK 3.
Henrietta of England, Monsieur’s First Consort
The Due de Berri
The Duchesse de Berri
Mademoiselle d’Orleans, Louise-Adelaide de Chartres
Mademoiselle de Valois, Consort of the Pri...
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Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon Biographies (1)
The French writer Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-Simon (1675-1755), provides in his classic "Memoirs" a major source of information on the court of the "Sun King," Louis XIV.The Duc de Saint-Simon was...
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