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Excerpt from The Letters and Dispatches of John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough, Vol. 1: From 1702-1712
Tnnnn is no part of the history of modern Europe anterior to the French Revolution of 1789, to which a greater degree of interest attaches than to the period comprehended between the Opening and the close of the reign of Louis XIV. Of France. Whatever can tend, therefore, to throw additional light upon the transactions of those times, and upon the characters of the persons who were principally engaged in them, will long continue to be deemed important by all who seek to derive either instruction or amusement from the pages of history.
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