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Read the following excerpt from the story The Charcoal Man and the King and identify the theme.
"Think what your mother would say if she saw you in the clothes of a poor man's son." said the
cardinal. "Think of what all the fine ladies would say."
"Let them say what they please, I am not going to change my clothes."
As the little king went out, he turned at the door and called to Charlot. "Come to the palace to-
morrow," he said, "and you shall have your clothes. You may bring mine with you."
Louis the Fourteenth became king of France when he was only five years old. He was called "the
Fourteenth" because there had been thirteen other kings before him who bore the name of Louis.
In history he is often called the Grand Monarch.
O Love
Power and corruption
Death
O Life
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