Memories of French Palaces (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Annie Emma Armstrong Challice

9780267683697: Memories of French Palaces (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0267683693 ISBN 13: 9780267683697

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The political troubles of which Paris had been the scene during the minority of Louis XIV., had in Spired that monarch with such an aversion to the capital of his kingdom that he determined, after the death of the queen-mother (anne of Austria), in 1667, to withdraw his Court thence and establish it at St.' Germain.

In 1660 he had been married to the Infanta of Spain he was then scarcely twenty-two years of age, and by this royal alliance, ordained for him by the united political devices of the queen-mother and Cardinal Mazarin, he was forcibly separated from his first love, Marie Mancini.

The marriage of Louis XIV. Was not a happy one, but it was at first popular, as being identical with the epoch of peace between France and Spain, and by it Cardinal Mazarin attained. The summit of his glory)

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