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My dear Mr Freeman,
I am going to take two or three days more that I may finish up Philip IV and his three disagreeable sons, who will complete the 2nd chapter - the 3d is to be the Hundred Years War, the 4th the Italian wars, the 5th must go from Louis XIII to the end of Louis XV, and ought to be called the Absolutism of the King. I expect you will find ... continue reading
The folk here, are quite on my side about ‘Debonnaire.’ In the first place, the King was so called as synonymous with Pious, according to Sismondi, and the proper original meaning of this word seems to have been ‘gracious,’ in which sense it is constantly applied to the best of the knights. Modern French has debased it, and given it of late the sense of weakness.... In English it decidedly means ... continue reading