Epitaph for KingsAttempts to perform an historical autopsy on French society during the ancient regime of Louis XIV, XV, XVI, from 1643 to 1789. |
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Page 108
... never once considered visit- ing the disaster areas . The Great Admiral of France never once showed interest in the welfare of the convicts under his jurisdiction . The memoirists of the period treated the plague as an event hardly ...
... never once considered visit- ing the disaster areas . The Great Admiral of France never once showed interest in the welfare of the convicts under his jurisdiction . The memoirists of the period treated the plague as an event hardly ...
Page 168
... never regained it . The dominance of England in eighteenth - century foreign affairs begins at Utrecht . The eighteenth century has been called the third Hundred Years ' War . The first pitted Capetians against Plantagenets from 1154 to ...
... never regained it . The dominance of England in eighteenth - century foreign affairs begins at Utrecht . The eighteenth century has been called the third Hundred Years ' War . The first pitted Capetians against Plantagenets from 1154 to ...
Page 319
... never realized that the Americans had outsmarted the three European courts which boasted the oldest diplomatic ... never understood the forces he had helped to spread , just as Ver- gennes never grasped that in recognizing the insurgents ...
... never realized that the Americans had outsmarted the three European courts which boasted the oldest diplomatic ... never understood the forces he had helped to spread , just as Ver- gennes never grasped that in recognizing the insurgents ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 13 |
THE EIGHTH SACRAMENT | 25 |
THE SUN KING | 43 |
Copyright | |
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