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History of Friedrich II. of Prussia
Vol. XV. (of XXI.)

CHAPTER XV
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And so EXIT King, into his interior.

Tuesday, 2-3 P.M., 28th December, 1745: a King new-christened in the above manner, so far as people could.
Illuminated Berlin shone like noon, all that night (the beginning of a GAUDEAMUS which lasted miscellaneously for weeks):--but the King stole away to see a friend who was dying; that poor Duhan de Jaudun, his early Schoolmaster, who had suffered much for him, and whom he always much loved.

Duhan died, in a day or two.

Poor Jordan, poor Keyserling (the "Cesarion" of young days): them also he has lost; and often laments, in this otherwise bright time.

(In _OEuvres,_ xvii.


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