Note 14 — I LOUIS XIV[14]

Ed. Chéruel, XII. cc. I and IV; ed. Boislisle, XXVIII. 1-53, 126-175. This digression on the character and reign of Louis XIV was written in September, 1745, but it reproduces almost textually the long note which Saint-Simon added to the Memoirs of Dangeau ten years earlier. It should be compared with his Parallèle des trois premiers rois Bourbon (Écrits inédits, I.) and with the Relation de la Cour de France en 1690 of Ezekiel Spanheim (ed. E. Bourgeois, 1900), the envoy of the Great Elector of Brandenburg.