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| "L'état c'est moi." (I am the State. Alternative translation: "It is legal because I wish it.") -- King Louis XIV, 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." -- King Louis XIV, quoted in Voltaire, Siècle de Louis XIV (1768) "The Pyrenees are no more." -- King Louis XIV commenting on the accession of his grandson to the throne of Spain |
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