CHAPTER LV

State of the Country.--New Taxes.--The King’s Conscience Troubled.--

Decision of the Sorbonne.--Debate in the Council.--Effect of the Royal

Tithe.--Tax on Agioteurs.--Merriment at Court.--Death of a Son of

Marechal Boufflers.--The Jesuits.

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