Share this page: L'état c'est moi. I am the State. Alternative translation: It is legal because I wish it. -- Speaking before the Parlement de Paris, 1655 J'ai failli attendre. I was nearly kept waiting. -- King Louis XIV (attributed) referring to an occasion when a coach he had ordered arrived just in time Every time I create an appointment, I create a hundred malcontents and one ingrate. -- Quoted in Voltaire, Siècle de Louis XIV (1768) The Pyrenees are no more. -- Commenting on the accession of his grandson to the throne of Spain Share this page:

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