Louis XIV:

I'm extremely glad for you, Messire. Great tidings! Now you can read Cervantes in the original.

— Louis XIV Early Modern

Sun King of France

To a courtier who learned Spanish, believing the King wanted to appoint him to Spain, but Louis merely suggested he could read Cervantes.

Approx. 17th Century

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