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Title: The story history of France from the reign of Clovis, 481 A.D., to the signing of the armistice, November, 1918
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Bonner, John, 1828-1899 Bonner, John, 1828-1899. A child's history of France
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Publisher: New York and London, Harper
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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BABKICADES AT PORTE ST. AMTOINE liS THE CIVIL WAR OF TUE FRONDE
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LOUIS XIV Chapter XXXVI LOUIS THE IOURTEENTHA.D, 1651-1680 At daybreak on the morning of the Vth of September,1651, the cannon of the Bastile, the Arsenal, and the fortsround Paris began to thunder ; at eight, Queen Anne, withthe members of the royal family and of the court, enteredthe chamber of Louis the Fourteenth, to congratulate himon his coming of age. The boy was but fourteen, but hewas grave as he leaned on the brass rail of his bed to re- 1651-1680) 231 ceive them ; he would have been handsome if his face hadnot been scarred by small-pox. He walked through a laneof noblemen and soldiers to the street, mounted his horse,and, after stopping on the way to hear mass, rode to theParliament Chamber. There he informed the membersthat he intended to take the government into his ownhands, and that he would acquaint them with his pleasure.This, from a boy of fourteen, would in our time be regardedas bold. But the French found no fault with it. They did not like it so well when Louis ag

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