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    THE ROYAL TREATMENT

    Jan 08, 2019 4 minutes
    Text by NICOLAS STECHER

    When his father, King Henry IV, was assassinated in 1610, the nine-year-old Louis XIII ascended to the French throne. In the following three decades, Louis the Just lifted France to the apex of the continent by effectively vanquishing Spain, and was widely considered one of the most powerful rulers in all of Europe by the time of his death in 1643. He pioneered the wig as fashion for men, exiled his own mother for skullduggery, and reigned during the creation of the Académie Française.

    Ironically, one reason his name lives on is not due to any of those accomplishments but rather because he is the namesake of one of the finest spirits in the world. Dating back to 1874 and introduced by

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