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Excerpt from Memoirs of the Duc De Saint-Simon on the Times of Louis XIV, and the Regency, Vol. 4 of 4 The king's death overtook the indolence of the Due d'orléans as if it were unexpected; he was still precisely The Duc Where, as we have seen, I left him. He had fhnfre' made no progress in any of the resolutions king's death he ought to have taken, either on matters of business or in the choice of persons. He was now over whelmed with orders to give and matters to regulate; each more petty or more commonplace than the others, but all so immediately necessary that the very case I had predicted to him happened, - he had no time to think of anything important. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.