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CASSELL'S ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF ENGLAND.
[Charles II
Louis XIV. of France.
To induce Charles to declare war without waiting for his confession of Catholicism, Louis sent over Charles's sister, Henrietta, duchess of Orleans. The king met her at Dover, and the point was discussed, but Charles would not move another step till the treaty was formally signed, and the first payment made. The duchess, indeed, was much more earnest on her own affairs. She was most miserably married to the duke of Orleans, the brother and heir-apparent of
