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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
67
The
following
case
is
a
much
harder
exercise
in
belief.
It
is
narrated
by
the
Duc
de
Saint
Simon.
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The
events
were
described
to
Saint
Simon
on
the
day
after
their
occurrence
by
the
Duc
d'Orleans,
then
starting
for
Italy,
in
May,
1706.
Saint
Simon
was
very
intimate
with
the
duke,
and
they
corresponded
by
private
cypher
without
secretaries.
Owing
to
the
death
of
the
king's
son
and
grandson
(not
seen
in
the
vision),
Orleans
became
Regent
when
Louis
XIV.
died
in
1714.
Saint
Simon
is
a
reluctant
witness,
and
therefore
all
the
better.
THE
DEATHBED
OF
LOUIS
XIV.
"Here
is
a
strange
story
that
the
Duc
d'Orleans
told
me
one
day
in
a
tete-a-tete
at
Marly,
he
having
just
run
down
from
Paris
before
he
started
for
Italy;
and
it
may
be
observed
that
all
the
events
predicted
came
to
pass,
though
none
of
them
could
have
been
foreseen
at
the
time.
His
interest
in
every
kind
of
art
and
science
was
very
great,
and
in
spite
of
his
keen
intellect,
he
was
all
his
life
subject
to
a
weakness
which
had
been
introduced
(with
other
things)
from
Italy
by
Catherine
de
Medici,
and
had
reigned
supreme
over
the
courts
of
her
children.
He
had
exercised
every
known
method
of
inducing
the
devil
to
appear
to
him
in
person,
though,
as
he
has
himself
told
me,
without
the
smallest
success.
He
had
spent
much
time
in
investigating
matters
that
touched
on
the
supernatural,
and
dealt
with
the
future.
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