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Lytton Strachey. Chapter IV THE AGE OF LOUIS XIV WHEN Louis XIV assumed the reins of government , France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity ; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower . In every branch of ...
Lytton Strachey. Chapter IV THE AGE OF LOUIS XIV WHEN Louis XIV assumed the reins of government , France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity ; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower . In every branch of ...
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... age . And what were these ideals ? The fact that the conception of society which made Versailles possible was narrow and unjust must not blind us to the real nobility and the real glory which it brought into being . It ... AGE OF LOUIS XIV.
... age . And what were these ideals ? The fact that the conception of society which made Versailles possible was narrow and unjust must not blind us to the real nobility and the real glory which it brought into being . It ... AGE OF LOUIS XIV.
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Lytton Strachey. But , in the heyday of the age of Louis XIV , literature showed no signs of such a malady — though no doubt it con- tained the latent germs of the disease ; on the contrary , the masterpieces of that ... AGE OF LOUIS XIV.
Lytton Strachey. But , in the heyday of the age of Louis XIV , literature showed no signs of such a malady — though no doubt it con- tained the latent germs of the disease ; on the contrary , the masterpieces of that ... AGE OF LOUIS XIV.
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