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A32875
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Choice remarks on the most observable actions performed by Lewis the XIV, present king in France
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1681
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Wing C3919; ESTC R29217
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of the Downs which was followed by the taking of Dunkirk Bergues St. Winox Furnes and Dixmude which took the Netherlands and constrained Don John of Austria and the Prince of Conde to retire into the heart of Flanders and to put themselves under the protection of Tournay Our Army at the same time took Mont-Cassel Graveline Oudenard and was also Master of the Field Ipre was afterwards taken and upon the defeat of the Prince of Ligne Mencin and other Forts surrendered themselves The Spaniards requested of his Holiness and the State of the Empire to mediate for Peace The Journy to Lion and the interview of their Majesties and their Royal. Highnesses of Savoy could not contribute to that Agreement which was intended for a double Alliance the Queen having other thoughts at the same time to make peace with Spain and Marry the King to the Infanta The arrival of Monsieur Pimantell was the occasion of the Journey of Monsieur de Lionne to Moden and they were the two Ministers that treated with Cardinal Mazarine and Don Lewis de Haro A Cessation of all sorts of Hostility was published on both sides in Order to a solid and firm Peace And then it was that Men began to hope for the wonted Intercourse between the two Nations and that the former Commerce would be establish'd which had been interrupted for four and twenty years together Cardinal Mazarine and Don Lewis de Haro being arrived in the Island of Faisans began the Treaty the 13th of August which was at length concluded upon the seventh of November after four and twenty Conferences at such a time that Peace seemed to be more desired then expected The success of the Low Countries and those of Portugal constrain'd the Spaniards to a Conclusion the Queen-Mother giving them to understand that if they let slip this Occasion they might probably never recover the same again The disorders of Marseilles forc'd the King to take a journey into Provence The Duke of Merceur enter'd the City with his Sword in his hand at the Head of the Light-Horse to preserve it from Plunder which done his Majesty appointed the Erection of a Citadel the place and compass where he immediately assign'd In the year 1660. He continued his Progress through all Tholouse Bourdeaux and Bayonne to the very Island of Faisans where happened an Interview between the two Kings and the Reception of the Infanta The Pomp and Consummation of this great Mariage appear'd extreamly advantagious to the two Nations The Ceremonies finish'd the Court return'd to Paris which had prepar'd all things for the Magnificent Entrie which the Queen made the 26th of August The Death of the Duke of Orleans at Blois the 2d of Feb. 1661. and of Cardinal Mazarine at Vineennes the 9th of March moderated in some measure the publick rejoycings They were very much lamented by the King and their own Creatures But the Mariages of the Duke of Orleans with the Princess of England and of the Prince of Florence with Madomoiselle Dr Orleans made them forget these Losses The restraint of the Sieur Fouqnet surpriz'd not only his own but all People of business The Erection of the Chamber of Justice was very disadvantageous for them It opened the Kings Eyes and caused him to take Care of his Kingdom It established an admitable Order in his Houshold and a rare Discipline in his Armies keeping both the great and meaner Officers in their Duty and an entire dependency It has also made him so much the Master of the Fortresses and Citadels in the Kingdom that the General and particular Governors are in a most perfect Obedience The Spaniard was desirous to experiment whether his Majesties new Government were upheld with constancy and vigour To this purpose the Baron of Batteville at Londou assaulted the Count d' Estrades at the publick Entry of the extraordinary embassador of Swedeland The King complained thereof at Madrid and at Brussels and recall'd his Commissioners that were employ'd with those of Spain for the Regulation of the Limits The Marquiss of Fuentas came to make his Majesty satisfaction assuring him that his Master had sent Order to his Embassadors and Ministers not to appear at all in Competition with those of France which was made in the presence of eight Embassadors and twenty two Residents The Birth of the Dauphin of France and the Prince of Spaine the first and sixth of November were great favours to both Nations The King made several Knights the first day of the year 1662. There was great wondring that the Duke of Longueville should pretend to precede the Duke of Vendosme who preceded in Birth not only him but all Forraign Princes The Count of Soissons and the Duke of Guise refus'd the Order of Knighthood saying they would go in pairs like the Dukes of Merceur and Beaufort which was adjudged with great knowledg of the Cause in favour of the Natural Princes The first Campaign of the Portugeses astonished Spain as did also the Mariage of the King of England with the Infanta The Succors which they obtain'd from the French and English and the Signal Victories which they got by that means have contributed much to the establishment of that Crown The Limits of the Kings Conquests were for the time happily regulated at Mets. The Assault made at Rome upon the Duke of Crequi and the evil consequences which were thought would have followed from thence were terminated by the Treaty of Pisa In the year 1663. The Embassadors of the thirteen Cantons of Switzerland came to renew the fair Alliance betwixt them and France There happened some Disorder in Lorrain Marsal was invested by the Count of Guiche but the Kings Journey in eleven days and the submission of Duke Charles who redelivered the Place to the Kings obedience calm'd that Tempest In the Month of December the King created fourteen Dukes and Peers and the Duke of Anguien espoused the Princess Palatine Anna of Baviera Germany was very much alarumed in the year 1664. at the raising the Siege of Canisia and taking the Fort of Serini and Montecuculi the Emperors General was repuls'd and his Army had been lost had it not beeen for the French Troops under the Count of Fueillade who defeated the Turks upon the Raab They came to encamp before Vienna and made an irruption into Silesia However that signal Rout constrained the Infidels to make a Truce for twentynine years between the two Empires The enterprise of Gigeri contributed very much to it so that the name of France was very much redoubted in the Ottaman Court. In the year 1665. The English and Hollanders made a new War and France engaged it self to succor the United Provinces nevertheless he sent the Duke of Vernueil into England to mediate a Reconciliation But the English Treaty with the Bishop of Munster very much astonished the Hollander so that the Troops that were sent to their Releif embroiled us with the King of Great Britain The Death