Premier Prince du Sang. Bossuet has united the exordium

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and the division of his Oration. They were separated in the Oration on Madame.

5. un Cyrus. The Cyrus who founded the Persian empire (+a. 529 B. G). In Mile de Scudery’s novel of Artamene ou le Grand Cyrus (1649-1653) the hero, Cyrus, was Conde himself. Cf. page 137, note 3.

Page 163 . — 1. Tu n'es pas encore, etc. A paraphrase of Isaiah xlv, 1-7.

а. Le voyez-vous, etc. Daniel viii, 5.