Volume 10 — CHAPTER LXXIII
Reading edition
Early Life of Louis XIV.—His Education.—His Enormous Vanity.—His Ignorance.—Cause of the War with Holland.—His Mistakes and Weakness in War.—The Ruin of France.—Origin of Versailles.—The King's Love of Adulation, and Jealousy of People Who Came Not to Court.—His Spies.— His Vindictiveness.—Opening of Letters.—Confidence Sometimes Placed in Him—A Lady in a Predicament.