Best Louis Xiv Poems

...French trader Tavernier in a greed-inspired way
Glared at an idol of a temple in Mandalay
Prying a gem from its eye socket, a curse prevailed
Tavernier died bankrupt soon after making the sale

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...Magnetic attraction, enchanting dream of a lifetime -
	majestic pyramid attracts my eye, 
	mystique draws me in
	
O, your architecture! Pavilions, colonnades; art enclosing art,
	every square in......

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...A lobster aspic chaud-froid
un petit pate
Beef with gold-leaf spangles
a morel suffle
edible candle *
a chateau
Bow!

*Louis XIV
*Chocolate truffles to you & me......

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...The Sun King (Le Roi Soleil)

The eyes and lips reveal the majestic, arrogant, smug smile
Of King Louis the Fourteenth, poised pompously in regal style.
Painted in a robe of luxurious clot......

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...Within halls that all but speak,
Sit elegant objects, very antique;
Treasured and valued bits of past,
Which care and devotion made last.

A museum crowded with sweet memory,
Like of dead, red ......

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...H 
St.Charles Parish 
When René Robert Cavelier sieur de La Salle claimed this vast country of 
Louisiana for King Louis XIV on April 9, 1682, the French Empire in North 
America extended from Hu......

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...One leading theory was proposed by the writer
and philosopher Voltaire. He was the first to claim 
in 1771 that the prisoner wore an iron mask. 
Voltaire also claimed that he was the older, 
ille......

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