[A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times by Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot]@TWC D-Link bookA Popular History of France From The Earliest Times CHAPTER L----LOUIS XIV 28/36
Try to preserve peace with your neighbors.
I have been too fond of war; do not imitate me in that, any more than in the too great expenses I have incurred.
Take counsel in all matters, and seek to discern which is the best in order to follow it. Try to relieve your people, which I have been so unfortunate as not to have been able to do." He kissed the child, and said, "Darling, I give you my blessing with all my heart." He was taken away; the king asked for him once more and kissed him again, lifting hands and eyes to Heaven in blessings upon him.
Everybody wept.
The king caught sight in a glass of two grooms of the chamber who were sobbing.
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