The king favored a union with the house of France, but he said:

And even down to today everyone in the house of France continues the custom.

Some young officers belonging to the greatest houses of France served on his staff.

You must know, father, that a prince of the royal house of France has arrived here.

The King knew the history of his own family and of the first houses of France perfectly.

In the evening we visited "Le Phare de France," or "The Light House of France."

Liguest named the settlement St. Louis, in honor of the patron saint of the royal house of France-Louis XV.

The author of the "Maximes" was the head of one of the great princely houses of France.

There was actual warfare between the two chief Catholic families-theHabsburgs of Germany and Spain and the royal house of France.

By the marriage of his half-sisters he was brought into connexion with the chief royal and princely houses of France and Germany.

The story of his family, so far as it is known, is a story of attendance upon the royal house of France.

This right they held by virtue of their connection with the royal house of France, and their close relationship to the Duke of Savoy.

Nothing could be easier: he knew the warlike notions of Charles VIII, and the pretensions of the house of France to the kingdom of Naples.

Nothing could be easier: he knew the warlike nations of Charles VIII, and the pretensions of the house of France to the kingdom of Naples.

He was descended in direct line from the Princes de Conde, whose connexion with the royal house of France dated back to the sixteenth century.

"Aye," he mused half coherently, "the wolf; 'tis the crest of the d'Artins, quartered with those of many of the most ancient houses of France.