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What his Majesty King Louis XIV.

was at the Age of Twenty-Two.
It has been seen, by the account we have endeavored to give of it, that the entree of King Louis XIV.

into the city of Blois had been noisy and brilliant his young majesty had therefore appeared perfectly satisfied with it.
On arriving beneath the porch of the Castle of the States, the king met, surrounded by his guards and gentlemen, with S.A.R.the duke, Gaston of Orleans, whose physiognomy, naturally rather majestic, had borrowed on this solemn occasion a fresh luster and a fresh dignity.

On her part, Madame, dressed in her robes of ceremony, awaited, in the interior balcony, the entrance of her nephew.