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  Title: The Memoirs of Louis XIV., Volume 13 And His Court and of The Regency
  
  
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  START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV.,
  
  
  
  
  
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  ` MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV AND HIS COURT AND OF THE REGENCY  
    
  BY THE DUKE OF SAINT-SIMON  
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  VOLUME 13.
  
  
  CHAPTER XCVII
  
  
  To go back, now, to the remaining events of the year 1719.
  
  
  The Marquise de Charlus, sister of Mezieres, and mother of the Marquis de
  Levi, who has since become a duke and a peer, died rich and old. She was the
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