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27.-25. La Bruyère (1645-1696), celebrated French moralist. His Caractères are a strong and bold satire on the life and customs of his time.

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28.-27. Bossuet (1627-1704), one of the grratest pulpit orators of his tim<s; was bishop of Condon, then of Meauz, and was surnamed the ** Eegle of Meaux " on arcount of his great éloquence. He was the preceptor of the Grand Dauphin son of Louis XIV.

20.— 11. Louis XV (1715-1774), great grandson of Louis XIV., whom he succeeded on the throne. Ile was one of the worst kings France ever had.

15. Louis XVI (1774-1793), grandson of Louis XV.; he was virtu«!us and well-meaning, but weak. Ile was dethroned in 1792 and beheaded in 1793.

16. Le duc d'Orléans, Louis-Philippe (1747-1798), surnamed *' Philippe Egalité," played a great part in the French Révolution ; he signed the death-warrant of Louis XVI., his cousin; but he himself died on the scaffold. Ile was the father of Louis-Philippe, king of France from 1830 to 1848.

26. Les Etats-Oénérauz were assemblies composed of the représentatives of the whole nation, that is, the deputies sent by

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tbe nobilitj, the clergj, and tbe people. Thej were first conyened bj Philippe-le-bel in 1802.