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1689 T. Shadwell Bury-Fair iii. i. 37 De grand Monarch, my Maitre, wantè me for a Lieutenan General, to makè deWar again Holland and Flandre.]

1699 M. Lister Journey to Paris (new ed.) 25 There are an infinite number of Busto's of the Grand Monarque every where put up by the Common People.

1729 J. Arbuckle Coll. Lett. & Ess. 196 In like manner a Tyger,..who destroys whole Flocks and Herds, and delights in nothing but Blood and Slaughter, would very naturally commence a Cham of Tartary, or a Grand Monarque.

1792 Gentleman's Mag. May 451/1 Witnesses of so novel a sight as that of a Grand Monarque brought back to his capital like a wild beast.

1816 R. Southey in Q. Rev. Oct. 230 It was evident that the First Consul might exchange his mongrel title whenever he thought fit for that of Grand Monarque, Emperor, or Arch-emperor, if it liked him better.

1883 R. Gower My Reminisc. II. xxx. 337 One of the Grand Monarque's daughters by the left hand married a Duc de Chevreuse.

1911 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 42/2 Louis was singularly well fitted by his physical and intellectual gifts for the rôle of Grand Monarque and he played it to perfection.

1967 D. W. Brogan in L. Norton tr. Duc de Saint-Simon Historical Mem. I. p. xix Saint-Simon shows us the King with..his ‘courage never to submit or yield’ which enabled him..to be in 1715 still le grand monarque.

2008 Guardian (Nexis) 29 Apr. 3 She quotes snippets from these journals..to describe a typical day in the life of Le Grand Monarque. There is just one problem: Louis XIV did not keep a secret diary.