Excerpt from Memoirs of the Duc De Saint-Simon on the Times of Louis XIV, and the Regency, Vol. 3 of 4This chord, so lightly touched, gave forth immediately a decisive sound. The prince, after a few words of preface about knowing from M. De Beauvilliers that I could be Dignity; govern. Spoken to with safety, acknowledged the truth men minim) of what I said, and fell incontinently on the ministers. He enlarged upon the unbounded authority they had usurped, on the power they had obtained from the king.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.