"Toutes les fois que je donne une place vacante, je fais cent mécontents et un ingrat."

"Il n'y a plus de Pyrénées."

"Je m'en vais, mais l'État demeurera toujours."

"Je mettrais plutôt toute l'Europe d'accord que deux femmes."

"J'ai failli attendre."

"Lewis XIV. was by far the ablest man who was born in modern times on the steps of a throne. He was laborious, and dev…"

"[A]s the country had nearly relapsed into Anarchy again, through the Frondist revolt, only one resource remained to i…"

"The French people were quick to realize the deep significance of the King's ideas, or rather, perhaps, it was the Kin…"

"This was a king, wise in his councils, valiant in his armies and magnanimous in his victories."

"Your opinion is right, that the members of the Académie Royale des Sciences must not be pestered if it does not appea…"