Famous quotes containing the words louis, france, absolute and/or monarch:
“Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
“In France a woman will not go to sleep until she has talked over affairs of state with her lover or her husband.”
—Jules Mazarin (1602–1661)
“There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)