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The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 11

Note 117 — Chapter XIX · “L’ÉTAT, C’EST MOI”

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[In 1680 the Paris corps de ville solemnly conferred on the king the title of Louis the Great, which, hitherto used sometimes on medals, now became de rigueur in official language.d]

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