CHAPTER LXXIII.
Early Life of Louis XIV .-- His Education .-- His Enormous Vanity .-- His Ignorance .-- Cause of the War with Holland .-- His Mistakes and Weakness in War .-- The Ruin of France .-- Origin of Versailles .-- The King's Love of Adulation, and Jealousy of People Who Came Not to Court .-- His Spies .-- His Vindictiveness .-- Opening of Letters .-- Confidence Sometimes Placed in Him--A Lady in a Predicament..