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The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère

Note 814 — XIV. OF CERTAIN CUSTOMS.

Henri Van Laun translation

According to Voltaireʼs Siècle de Louis XIV., chap, viii., the king and his officers went, however, to the trenches wearing head-pieces and breast-plates.

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