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Note 192 — VI THE DEATH OF MONSEIGNEUR[153]

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See for other accounts of the Dauphin’s death Correspondance de Madame, II. 143 ff. and Mme de Maintenon d’après sa correspondance, II. 275 ff. Cp. also Massillon’s Oraison funèbre, in which he dwells on the Dauphin’s bonté or good-nature, and on his complete submission to Louis XIV, “Toujours entre les mains du roi, et toujours charmé d’y être.”

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