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of the Grand Monarque,--that sovereign whom his priests in their liturgy styled the chief work of the Divine hands, and of whom Mazarin said, more truthfully, that there was material enough in him for four kings and one honest man. The Moi-meme of his boyish resolution became the Laetat, c'est moi of his maturer egotism; Spain yielded to France the mastery of the land, as she had already yielded to Holland and England the sea; Turenne fell at Sassbach, Conde sheathed his sword at Chantilly; Bossuet and Bourdaloue, preaching the funeral sermons of these heroes, praised their glories, and forgot, as preachers will, their sins; Vatel committed suicide because His Majesty had not fish enough for breakfast; the Princesse Palatine died in a convent, and the Princesse Conde in a prison; the fair Sevigne chose the better part, and the fairer Montespan the worse; the lovely La Valliere walked through sin to saintliness, and poor Marie de Mancini through saintliness to sin; Voiture and Benserad