text: Éléphante de Louis XIV 
  
  **Notes**
  
  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 the 
  
  absolutism of the*Ancien Régime*, held that the president of the*parlement*began to address the king with the 
  words*Sire, l'État [...]*but was cut off by the king interjecting*L'État, c'est moi*. 