. Versailles and the court under Louis XIV. His Personal Appearance and Character merce, manufactures, letters even, upon the highest point;and this age, like that of Augustus, produced in abundanceillustrious men of all kinds, even those illustrious only inpleasures. In the Mercure may be found an account of thereception of the Doge of Genoa at Versailles on the 15thof May, 1685: When the doge and the senators had as-cended the magnificent staircase leading to the grand apart-ments of His Majesty, they entered the salon of War, andturned from that into the grand gallery, at the other endof wh
. Versailles and the court under Louis XIV. His Personal Appearance and Character merce, manufactures, letters even, upon the highest point;and this age, like that of Augustus, produced in abundanceillustrious men of all kinds, even those illustrious only inpleasures. In the Mercure may be found an account of thereception of the Doge of Genoa at Versailles on the 15thof May, 1685: When the doge and the senators had as-cended the magnificent staircase leading to the grand apart-ments of His Majesty, they entered the salon of War, andturned from that into the grand gallery, at the other endof which was the king on his throne in the salon of . All the apartments and the gallery were magnificentlyfurnished with silver furniture, worth many million crowd was so great that, in spite of the efforts madeto keep a passage free, the doge had much difficulty incrossing the gallery. M. le Marechal Due de Duras con-ducted him to the foot of His Majestys throne. It wasmade of silver. When Louis received the ambassadors o
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