During the French Revolution, I got worried about my boy Louis XIV, the Sun King, then went down to check on him and found out he had died seventy-five years earlier.†
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Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle, 2016
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He was sitting on the edge of a high-backed chair with the emblem of a Sun King carved into the top, intensely focused on the task at hand.†
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James A. Owen, Here, There be Dragons, 2006
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At Versailles or in Paris the Sun King had one nobleman to hand him his stockings, another his shirt, in his morning levee.†
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Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March, 1949