Note 84 — JOHN SOBIESKI. (continued 2)
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“The siege of Vienna had given terror to all Europe, and the utmost reproch to the French, who ’tis believed brought in the Turks for diversion that the French king might the more easily swallow Flanders, and pursue his unjust conquests upon the empire, while we sat unconcerned and under a deadly charm from somebody.”—Evelyn’s Diary, September 23rd, 1683.