The little prince has already shown all the Grand Monarque in his childish "Je suis Louis Quatorze," and has been carried in his bib to hold his first parliament.

The intellectual glory of the reign of the Grand Monarque began in its women.

And then unrolled the gorgeous tapestry of the maturer reign of the Grand Monarque,that sovereign whom his priests in their liturgy styled "the chief work of the Divine hands," and of whom Mazarin said, more honestly, that there was material enough in him for four kings and one honest man.

He came to see me, and said to me, "I am lodging at the Grand Monarque, 89, Rue des Fripiers.

Even in his bitterest reverses he still maintained the air of the "Grand Monarque."

Two hundred years ago his countrymen called him Le Grand Monarque, and his glory filled the world.

As grand monarque, the arbiter of all fortunes, the central sun of all glory, was he always figuring before the eyes of men.

As soon as he entered the camp he declared that he had been sent by the Grand Monarque to heal the ills of the Hurons.

To these high and lofty expressions the Admiral could give no other answer than that in a very few days, or hours perhaps, he would give them a very good opportunity of testifying their zeal for the Company and the Grand Monarque.

I afterwards called in at Giles's, where I saw a Board of French Gentlemen sitting upon the Life and Death of their Grand Monarque.

It was not, therefore, sufficient for the author to consider how human beings would naturally express themselves in the predicament of the scene; he had the more embarrassing task of so modifying their expressions of passion and feeling, that they might not exceed the decorum necessary in the august presence of the grand monarque.

Le directeur, sachant que la meilleure excuse qu'il pût donner au grand monarque était de lui dire la vérité, alla à sa loge et lui dit; "Sire, la reine n'est pas encore rasée."

demandait au roi Pyrrhus un sage confident, conseiller très prudent d'un monarque qui ne le fut guère.

Ce monarque se rendoit en 1248 à sa désastreuse expédition d'Egypte, et il venoit de relacher en Cypre avec sa flotte lorsqu'il reçut dans cette ile, le 12 Décembre, une députation des Tartares, dont les deux chefs portoient les noms de David et de Marc.

Il envoya au monarque une relation, que le temps nous a conservée, et qui, comme la précédente, se trouve traduite dans Bergeron; mais

On reconnoit ceux de deux rois à l'écu de France blasonné qu'on y a peint, à leurs épitres dédicatoires, à leurs vignettes, qui représentent l'offrande du livre fait au monarque, et le monarque revêtu du manteau royal.

On reconnoit ceux de deux rois à l'écu de France blasonné qu'on y a peint, à leurs épitres dédicatoires, à leurs vignettes, qui représentent l'offrande du livre fait au monarque, et le monarque revêtu du manteau royal.

Meaningless pilasters, entablatures, and contorted cornices replaced the simpler outline and subordinate enrichment of the time of Henri II., and until the great revival of taste under the "grand monarque," there was in France a period of richly ornamented but ill-designed decorative furniture.

The Palace of Versailles bears throughout the stamp and impress of the majesty of le Grande Monarque; and the rich architectural ornament of the interior, with moulded, gilded, and painted ceilings, required the furnishing to be carried to an extent which had never been attempted previously.

In the Louvre there is one which has a figure of Le Grand Monarque, clad in armour, with a Roman toga, and wearing the full bottomed wig of the time, which scarcely accords with the costume of a Roman general.

the territory of Monaco gave the title of prince to a certain Honore III., who was under the protection of the Grand Monarque.

There was one her grandfather had got from the land of Louis XIV.Le Grand Monarque, of whom my mother had begun to tell me as soon as I could hear with understanding.

"Why not next to Napoleon the First, who was a still greater conqueror?" "But no dancer, Monsieur!" replied the ex-god Scamander, with a kind of half pirouette; "whereas the Grand Monarque was the finest dancer of his epoch.

Whatever may be my opinion of the reigning family, which I only utter to you in confidence, and not as coin that is to pass from one to another, my love for the Grand Monarque is still less.

The days of formal pomp and vast representation had ended for ever when the 'Grand Monarque' was no longer to be seen strutting, in periwig and red-heeled shoes, down the glittering gallery of Versailles; the intimacy and seclusion of modern life had not yet begun.