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A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times

CHAPTER L----LOUIS XIV
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Simon, "which did not prevent good eyes from observing and discerning all the features.

The two princes and the two princesses, seated beside them, taking care of them, were most exposed to view.

The Duke of Burgundy wept, from feeling and in good faith, with an air of gentleness, tears of nature, of piety, and of patience.

The Duke of Berry, in quite as good faith, shed abundance, but tears, so to speak, of blood, so great appeared to be their bitterness; he gave forth not sobs, but shrieks, howls.

The Duchess of Berry (daughter of the Duke of Orleans) was beside herself.


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