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This may possibly have been a subtle form of flattery, so that the Shah alone might catch the eye and be the 'observed of all observers' 'le Roi-Soleil' of the land of the Lion and the Sun.
When the 'Roi-Soleil, that incarnation of the Bourbon spirit, was so inflated with his own personality as to forbid the erection of any statue throughout France but his own, he paved the way for the revolutionary iconoclasts of a century later. It was simply a recurrence of the old fatality, the inevitable moral, since History began.
By Rigaud, who was regarded as the first painter of Europe for truth of resemblance united with magnificence of presentment, are: a masterly portrait of Bossuet, 783; and a superb rendering of the roi-soleil, 781, both on the L. wall.
Here is the Sun, in all his glory; but here we are dealing with a literary version of the Marchen, accommodated to royal tastes and Egyptian ideas of royalty by a royal scribe, the courtly Perrault of the Egyptian Roi-Soleil. Who can say what he introduced? while we can say that the Sun-god is absent in South African and Santhal and other variants.
Holland and England, however, were soon to realize that no compromise was possible with France and that their safety required prompt joint action. The Roi-Soleil would not agree to recognize the right of the new King of Spain, Charles II, to the Southern Netherlands.
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