The Abyssinian
"The beginning of this story is a curious fact: In 1699, Louis XIV of France sent an embassy to the most mysterious and fabled of oriental sovereigns, the Negus, or King, of Abyssinia (modern day Ethiopia). Louis' hope was to lure that country, nominally Christian for centuries, into the political a…
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