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Updated: May 20, 2025
"Your Majesty," said the great court doctor, Olibriers, at his last audience, "your people look like putty! They are incurable; their senseless love for good eating will bring them all to the grave." This view of things did not suit the King. He was wise, and saw very plainly that a monarch without subjects would be but a sorry king.
Those ministers who had not guessed the secret dared not open their lips. All the city was one vast hospital. No one was seen in the streets but doctors and apothecaries' boys, running from house to house in frantic haste. It was dreadful! Doctor Olibriers was nearly knocked out.
Wait till to-morrow, my friends; yes, till day after to-morrow, and next week!" The next day the feast still went on gayly; yet at the evening meal the King noticed some empty seats. "Why is this?" said he, with pretended indifference, to the court physician. "Your Majesty," said the great Olibriers, "a few weak stomachs; that is all." On the next day there were larger empty spaces.
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