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Philip Hensher SAINT-SIMON AND THE COURT OF LOUIS XIV by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie Chicago, 122.50, pp. 448 ISBN 0226473201 I f you wanted to sit down at the court of Louis XIV at......

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