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hters of the Duke of York.-William of Orange Marries One, in Spite of the Opposition of the King.-Great

or his genial temper, nor his amiable frankness. After the death of Henrietta of England, his beloved sister, he remained for some time longer our ally, but only to take great advantage from our union and alliance. He had made use of it against the Dutch, his naval and

nor palace, nor homages of state to the Queen, his mother, although daughter and sister of two French kings; that this Queen, in a modest retirement-sometimes in a cell in the convent of Chaillot, sometimes in her little pavilion at Colombesl-had died, poisoned by her physician, without the orator, Bossuet

lost her sleep, and was given soporific pills, on account of which Henrietta of France awok

hat he ought to detach himself from France, who was not helpful enough; and, by deserti

had none by the Queen, his wife. The presumptive heir to t

llor, Lord Hyde, had himself only two daughters, equally beautiful, who,

incesses conformably with our interests, when the Prince of Orange cros

and refuse his daughter; but, in royal families, it is always the head who makes and decides marriages. William of Orange

Britain stood definitely on their side; he made common cause with them, and soon there appeared in the political world an audacious document signed by this prince, in which, from t

Charleroi, Ath, Courtrai, Condo, Saint Guilain, Tournai, and Valenciennes, as a condition of retaining Franche-Comt

e referred the decision of his difficulties to t

a particular treaty at La Hague, to constrain France (or, rather, h