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L’État, c’est moi

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Patricia Gilbert

Louis XIV was born on September 5, 1638. I feel about him much the way I do about Napoleon – equivocally. Both men marked the history of France more than virtually anyone else, and both men waged war on a … Continue reading →

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