A discourse on the history of the whole world, dedicated to His Royal Highness the Dauphin, explicating the continuance of religion with the changes of states and empires; from the creation till the reign of Charles the great : Written originally in French by James Benigne Bossuet, sometime bishop of Condom and now of Meaux, counsellour of state to the Most Christian King, heretofore tutor to the Dauphin, and now chief almoner to the Dauphiness. Faithfully Englished.