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Louis XIV., Makers of History Series, by
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Title: Louis XIV., Makers of History Series
Author: John S. C. Abbott
Release Date: October 26, 2008 [EBook #27056]
Language: English
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Makers of History
Louis XIV.
BY JOHN S. C. ABBOTT
WITH ENGRAVINGS
NEW YORK AND LONDON HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS 1904
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by
HARPER & BROTHERS,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington
Copyright, 1898, by LAURA A. BUCK.
[Illustration: LOUIS XIV.]
PREFACE
We all live a double life: the external life which the world sees, and the internal life of hopes and fears, joys and griefs, temptations and sins, which the world sees not, and of which it knows but little. None lead this double life more emphatically than those who are seated upon thrones.
Though this historic sketch contains allusions to all the most important events in the reign of Louis XIV., it has been the main object of the writer to develop the inner life of the palace; to lead the reader into the