As members of the French parliament streamed blithely back to Paris last week, after the holidays, they joked and then talked seriously of Le Dauphin.Since France is no longer a monarchy, the ...

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EARLY in the month of February, 1680, Louis XIV. of France dispatched Bossuet, Bishop of Condom, with Madame de Maintenon, to meet and welcome the bride of his son, the Princess Marie Anne ...