Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle, 1652-1693

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Saint-Simon, Mémoires.

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Saint-Simon says fifteen. He is mistaken; the act of marriage says fourteen.

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Mémoires, Saint-Simon.

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Saint-Simon, Mémoires.

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The royal ordinance is dated July 7, 1668. Louis XIV. was ever ignorant of the fact that the councillors of the Hôtel de Ville had passed nights in copying what was to be burned, so that the documents supposed to be destroyed still exist.

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From La Rivière to Bussy-Rabutin.

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Relation de la Cour de France, by Ézéchiel Spanheim, envoy extraordinary from Brandenbourg.