Éléphante de Louis XIV
a. Some monarchs of states that were not fully sovereign for most or all of their reign ruled for longer. For example,Sobhuza II of Swaziland at 82 years and Bernard VII of Lippe in the Holy Roman Empire at 81 years.[2]
b. The anecdote as circulated after the French Revolution, designed to illustrate the tyrannical character of theabsolutism of the Ancien Régime, held that the president of the parlement began to address the king with thewords Sire, l'État [...] but was cut off by the king interjecting L'État, c'est moi.
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5. Nathan 1993, pp. 633–649.
6. Nathan 1993, p. 633.
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8. Bluche 1990, p. 11.
9. Barentine 2016, p. 129.
10. Panhuysen 2016, p. 26.
11. Fraser 2006, pp. 14–16.
12. Petitfils 2002, pp. 30–40
13. Reinhardt 2016, p. 20.
14. Kleinman 1985, p. 145.
15. Bély 2001, p. 57.
16. Sonnino 1998, pp. 217–218.
17. Petitfils 2002, pp. 34–37
18. Petitfils 2002, pp. 29–36
19. Beem 2018, p. 83.
20. Barentine 2016, p. 131.
21. Dvornik 1962, p. 456.
22. Kleinman 1985, p. .
23. Petitfils 2002, pp. 70–75
24. Petitfils 2002, pp. 80–85
25. Blanning 2008, p. 306.
26. Petitfils 2002, pp. 84–87.
27. Petitfils 2002, pp. 88–90, 91–98.
28. Hatton 1972, p. 22.
29. Hatton 1972, p. 31.
30. Hatton 1972, p. 18.
31. Petitfils 2002, pp. 148–150.
32. Bluche 1990, pp. 128–129.
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