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 Lazzaro’ni.Le Roi le Veut (French, The king wills it.) 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
L’État c’est Moi (I am the State).
 
The saying and belief of Louis XIV. On this principle he acted with tolerable consistency.   1
 


 Lazzaro’ni.Le Roi le Veut (French, The king wills it.) 

 
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