Love and Louis XIV Quotes

“Mignon' said the King, 'soon you are going to be a great king'. But he also told Anjou, in a memorable phrase
'Try to remain at peace with your neighbors: I have loved war too much...”
― Antonia Fraser, Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King

“Duc de La Rochefoucauld which was peculiarly appropriate to Louis XIV in 1667 was his reflection on the human heart where ‘new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another’.”
― Antonia Fraser, Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King