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King Louis XIV Specimen Memoir on Statecraft and Kingship
A translated memoir excerpt presents Louis XIV’s views on princely restraint, balancing private inclinations with public duties, and the dangers of complaisance. It recounts his 1671 Secretary of State appointment, later resignation, and lessons about decisive governance for the good of the state. It also includes Alderman Beckford’s London speech and brief European dispatches from 1761 and 1763 on politics, war loans, and diplomacy.
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