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Memoirs of Louis Xiv and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 01 · Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon — chapter 54 of 125 · ~32 words · public domain

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CHAPTER LV

State of the Country.--New Taxes.--The King's Conscience Troubled.-- Decision of the Sorbonne.--Debate in the Council.--Effect of the Royal Tithe.--Tax on Agioteurs.--Merriment at Court.--Death of a Son of Marechal Boufflers.--The Jesuits.

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