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...astonishing thing about Western culture is that it has developed in the midst of internal and external strife. England was living dangerously when Shakespeare was composing his sonnets and writing his plays; the tumult of battle runs through much of his work. While Louis XIV ruined France financially in his desperate bid for glory on the battlefield, Moliere wrote his brilliant social comedies. These and other great playwrights through the ages wrote on the problems of their times, but they saw further than the playwrights of today. Shakespeare put his themes on the level of universality, not basing them...
...authority past feudal nobles to all the frontiers of his realm. The first church of St. Germain was built in the meadows by Childebert I in the 6th Century, when Paris was a Roman island in the river. In the Palais Royal the great Cardinal Richelieu died and Louis XIV shone like the sun. Across the river Margaret of Burgundy met the lovers whom she was said to have silenced by drowning...
...Carp at Versailles during the reign of Louis XIV was said to resemble Madame de Maintenon to an extraordinary degree. The story was finally traced to Madame de Montespan...
...During the wars of Louis XIV and Napoleon, the French were regarded almost as the Germans are today. After France had been invaded and defeated and punished in 1814, in 1815 and in 1870-71, the French people ceased to be aggressive and dangerous. ... It is at least possible to hope that after similar experiences the Germans may get over their militaristic propensities...
Thanks for the story in TIME, Oct. 6, giving the good old yarn of "Pislam Siv." It happens that the clergy and seminarians, at least in my seminary days, enjoyed that a good many times! However, as we told it, the psalm was not XIV...