Note 36 — I LOUIS XIV[14]
Reading edition
This account of Louis XIV’s éducation has been shewn by modern historians to be incorrect. Cp. Primi Visconti, Mémoires, 191-192. But it is true that he hated reading. “La seule vue d’un livre le fatigue” (ib.). “Il avait la lecture en horreur,” says Madame (Corr. III. 36).