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A Short History of France

CHAPTER XIV
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and Charles X.

Still another princeling, Louis Philippe, was at the Palais Royal, son of the Duke of Orleans, late regent, also destined to wear the French crown; and last of all that infant at Ajaccio, in whom the play was to reach its splendid climax.
In 1744 Louis XV.

was stricken with small-pox, and exchanged the brilliant scenes at Versailles for the royal vault in the Church of St.
Denis, where he took his place among his ancestors..


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