MORT DE LOUIS XIV

Le 13 août, le roi fit l'effort de recevoir debout un prétendu ambassadeur de Perse et de signer un traité avec lui. Cette comédie, dont les ministres avait flatté sa vanité, l'acheva réellement.6 Le matin, il avait fallu

1. Marlborough, a celebrated Englisk général and the hero of a popular song under the name of Malbrough, was born in 1660 and died in 1722.

2. Villars, one of the most popular gênerais, to our days, of Louis XIV, was born in 10,"):} and died in 1734,

3. Utrecht et Eastadt are situated, the fllrst a short distance North of Rotterdam, the other in the Duchy of Baden.

4. Acadieis a large peninsula of North America, now oalled Nova- Scotia.