title: The Age of Louis XIV (The Story of Civilization VIII)
author: Will Durant
description: A history of European civilizations in the period of Pascal, Moliere, Cromwell, Milton, Peter the Great, Newton and Spinoza: 1648 - 1715.
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  Title: The Memoirs of Louis XIV., Volume 7 And His Court and of The Regency
  
  
  Author: Duc de Saint-Simon
  
  
  Release Date: December 3, 2004 [EBook #3866]
  
  
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  START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV.,
  
  
  
  
  
  Produced by David Widger
  
  
  
  
  
  ` MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV AND HIS COURT AND OF THE REGENCY  
    
  BY THE DUKE OF SAINT-SIMON  
  `
  
  
  
  
  
  VOLUME 7.
  
  
  CHAPTER XLVII
  
  
  The death of D'Avaux, who had formerly been our ambassador in Holland,
  occurred in the early part of this year (1709). D'Avaux was one of the first
  to hear of the project of William of Orange upon England, when that project
  was 