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# The unheard-of and barbarous treatment which the King inflicts upon me obliges me to leave France and withdraw to Venice […] If His Royal Highness wished it, I should have the honour of speaking with him, I should tell him many things which, I am sure, wo
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The unheard-of and barbarous treatment which the King inflicts upon me obliges me to leave France and withdraw to Venice \[…\] If His Royal Highness wished it, I should have the honour of speaking with him, I should tell him many things which, I am sure, would afford him infinite pleasure. But that is something I would not dare to flatter myself with: I shall therefore confine myself to obtaining a passport.

From a note by Philippe de Vendôme, Grand Prior, to the Duchess of Savoy, requesting a passport for travel to Venice for himself and six of his servants, June 1709

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