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The King Danced With Her

Krutch, Joseph Wood | June 2, 1956 issue

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The article presents books and authors. Louis XIV tipped his hat to all women including the serving maids, but he massacred without compunction any of his humbler subjects who showed signs of dissatisfaction. Somehow or other the upper classes at least were hypnotized into accepting what all this suggests as a reasonable way of life based on a reasonable set of values. And no one fell more completely under his spell than the author of the most famous letters in the French or, perhaps, in any other language presented in "Letters From Madame La Marquise De Savigne,"

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