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"The King must be praised everywhere but, so to speak, without praise, by a narrative of all that he has been seen to do, say, and think. It must appear disinterested but be lively, piquant, and sustained, avoiding in its expressions all that veers toward the panegyric. In order to be better believed, it should not give him the magnificent epithets and eulogies he deserves; they must be torn from the mouth of the reader by the things themselves." - Paul Pellisson-Fontanier proposal of a history of King Louis XIV's reign

[SIZE=1]"When in 1850 the French General St Arnaud marched his legions through the Kanga Pass in the Atlas mountains he reasonably believed that he was the first man who had ever traversed so impassable a defile. Then he found carved on a rock an inscription stating: 'The Legio III Aususta built this road in AD 145'.”- [B][I]Victor W. Von Hagen,[/I][/B], [U]The Roads That Led To Rome[/U][/SIZE]