à l'italienne, i.e., à la façon italienne

6. Les Alpes s'étaient abaissées. Cf. the saying of Louis XIV. when he made a French prince king of Spain : // n'y a plus de Pyrénées,

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2. Louis XI, reigned from 1461 to 1483, predecessor of Charles

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