Excerpt from Les Guerres Sous Louis XV, Vol. 1: 1715-1739 Depuis l'officier g n ral jusqu'au simple soldat, tous les degr s de la hierarchie militaire, l'influence du temps, le go t de bien vivre, avaient cr des n cessit s auxquelles on ne savait plus se soustraire (l). Enfin les luttes incessantes du parlement, contre le pouvoir royal, occupent les esprits avec tant de passion, que la guerre de Sept Ans est accept e avec une sorte d'entra nement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.