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From The Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency, by the Duke of Saint-Simon, translated by Bayle St. John

HERE

"Here was to be my great trial, for the major-domo major and the nuncio of the Pope were to be present at the ceremony, and according to the infamous and extraordinary instructions I had recieved from Dubois, I was to preceed them! How was this to be done?"

From Volume III. Chapter XXXIII