Louis XIV of France

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Louis XIV of France (baptised as Louis-Dieudonné) (5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715) ruled as King of France and of the Navarre.

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• Il n'y a plus de Pyrénées.
  • The Pyrenees have ceased to exist.
    • On his grandson becoming King of Spain, quoted in Voltaire, Siecle de Louis XIV (1751), ch.28

• Je m'en vais, mais l'État demeurera toujours.
  • I am going away, but the State will always remain.
    • Marquis de Dangeau. Mémoire sur la mort de Louis XIV (page 24).

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• L'Etat, c'est moi.
  • I am the state.
    • Attr. by Dulaire, Hist. de Paris (1834), vol.6, p.298; probably apocryphal

• J'ai failli attendre.
  • I almost had to wait.
    • Regarded as apocryphal by E. Fournier, L'Esprit dans l'Histoire (4th ed. 1884). ch.xlviii

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