ISBN: 9780217939409

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[ED: Softcover], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], 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: wind did not trouble them, but in some parts of the gallery it was bitterly cold.1 Thus splendor and discomfort and crime were all to be found together in the halls of Versailles. The most commonplace remark of the king was caught up and repeated by the courtiers as if it were an utterance of inspired wisdom. One day the conversation turned on some peculiar funeral practices. " His majesty did me the honor to say," writes the Duke of Luynes, "' We are not subjected to such ceremonies.' I felt bound to reply that only his majesty could think of such an event in his own case we could never even consider its possibility. ' Why not,' said the king, 'must not this happen?' One cannot," adds the enthusiastic duke, moved by Louis's admission that even he must die, ?" one cannot be too much impressed by all the marks of piety and goodness in the king." When Thackeray writes in the ballad of " King Canute: " ? "' He to die ?' resumed the Bishop. ' He a mortal like to us 1 Death was not for him intended, though communis omnibus,'" we think this the sarcasm of the satirist, but many a polished French courtier addressed Louis XV. in language which differed little from that of the bishop of King Canute. The number of officials who surrounded the monarch was very large he could not go from Versailles to Marly, from the Louvre to La Muette, unless he was accompanied by a body of attendants almost as numerous as the Greek army at Thermopylae. On the king's journey to Chantilly, says the chronicler, there went with him over two hundred servants employed in the kitchen, besides sixty Swiss, whose business was to assist in serving in all there were seven hundred persons to feed.1 The pomp of a royal progress was not unworthy of the dignity of the monarch trumpets sounded loudly to a...Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen, [SC: 0.00]<

ISBN: 9780217939409

[ED: Softcover], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], 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… Plus…

[ED: Softcover], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], 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: wind did not trouble them, but in some parts of the gallery it was bitterly cold.1 Thus splendor and discomfort and crime were all to be found together in the halls of Versailles. The most commonplace remark of the king was caught up and repeated by the courtiers as if it were an utterance of inspired wisdom. One day the conversation turned on some peculiar funeral practices. " His majesty did me the honor to say," writes the Duke of Luynes, "' We are not subjected to such ceremonies.' I felt bound to reply that only his majesty could think of such an event in his own case we could never even consider its possibility. ' Why not,' said the king, 'must not this happen?' One cannot," adds the enthusiastic duke, moved by Louis's admission that even he must die, ?" one cannot be too much impressed by all the marks of piety and goodness in the king." When Thackeray writes in the ballad of " King Canute: " ? "' He to die ?' resumed the Bishop. ' He a mortal like to us 1 Death was not for him intended, though communis omnibus,'" we think this the sarcasm of the satirist, but many a polished French courtier addressed Louis XV. in language which differed little from that of the bishop of King Canute. The number of officials who surrounded the monarch was very large he could not go from Versailles to Marly, from the Louvre to La Muette, unless he was accompanied by a body of attendants almost as numerous as the Greek army at Thermopylae. On the king's journey to Chantilly, says the chronicler, there went with him over two hundred servants employed in the kitchen, besides sixty Swiss, whose business was to assist in serving in all there were seven hundred persons to feed.1 The pomp of a royal progress was not unworthy of the dignity of the monarch trumpets sounded loudly to a...Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen, [SC: 0.00]<