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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER I. LOUIS THE WELL-BELOVED. PRESIDENT Henault, remarking on royal Surnames of Honour how difficult it often is to ascertain not only why, but even when, they were conferred, takes occasion, in his sleek official way, to make a philosophical reflection. ' The Surname ' of Bien-aimd (Well-beloved), ' says he, ' which Louis XV. ' bears, will not leave posterity in the same doubt. This ' Prince, in the year 1744, while hastening from one end of ' his kingdom to the other, and suspending his conquests ' in Flanders that he might fly to the assistance of Alsace, ' was arrested at Metz by a malady which threatened to ' cut short his days. At the news of this, Paris, all in terror, ' seemed a city taken by storm: the churches resounded ' with supplications and groans; the prayers of priests and ' people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and ' it was from an interest so dear and tender that this Sur- ' name of Bien-aimd fashioned itself, ?a title higher still than 1 all the rest which this great Prince has earned.'1 1 Abregt Chronologiijue de I'Sistoir e de France (Paris, 1775), p. 70L. VOL. II. (Fr. Rev. vol. 1.) B 1744-74. So stands it written; in lasting memorial of that year 1744. Thirty other years have come and gone; and 'this great Prince' again lies sick; but in how altered circumstances now Churches resound not with excessive groan- ings; Paris is stoically calm: sobs interrupt no prayers, for indeed none are offered; except Priests' Litanies, read or chanted at fixed money-rate per hour, which are not liable to interruption. The shepherd of the people has been carried home from Little Trianon, heavy of heart, and been put to bed in his own Chateau of Versailles: the flock knows it, and heeds it not. At most, in the immeasurable tide of French S...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217825894 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217825893 |
| Weight | 0.90 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.62 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 274 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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