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Of the King, Royal Family, and other Princely Families in France.
CHAP. III.
Of the Present KING, and of the Title, Stile, and Prerogatives of the KINGS of France.
THE Present King, is named Lewis the Great, the Fourteenth of that Name, King of France and Navarre, Son of Lewis the Thirteenth, Surna∣med the Just, and Grand-child of Henry the Great. Many have called our Most August Monarch, God∣given, for his happy Birth granted to the Prayers of the French after twenty three years expectation. He was Born of Queen Anne of Austria, at St. Ger∣mans en Lay, the 5th of September 1638. and suc∣ceeded the King his Father the 14th of May, 1643. He was declared Major, or at Age, the 7th of Sep∣tember, 1651. Consecrated at Reims 1654, and Mar∣ried at St. John de Luz's, the 9th of the same Month 1660.
As to his Consecration, or Anointing, (for so the French call the Coronation of their Kings) though the Medals made on that occasion bear date the 31th of May, you are to remark that it was not performed till the 7th of June, of the said Year 1654.
I thought I could not give you a more faithful Draught of the Person of our Invincible Monarch, than that which I have borrowed from the words of the late Archbishop of Paris, in the History that