Crossword-Solution: SOLARE 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 6

The Count _de la Perouse_, attended by the Chevalier _de Solare_, Lieutenant Colonel of the Guards, at the Head of a Detachment of Grenadiers, with their Bayonets screw’d to their Musquets, went up to the great Stair-case of the Palace, which led to King _Victor_’s Apartment, while the Marquis _d’Ormea_, Secretary of State, who carry’d the Order sign’d by King _Charles_, secur’d the Back-stairs with another Detachment of the Grenadiers.

The Chevalier _de Solare_ seiz’d the King’s Sword, which he saw lying on a Table; and the Count _de la Perouse_ went to the Bed-side, and open’d the Curtains.

The Chevalier _de Solare_ coming too near the Bed, the King punched him with his Elbow in the Belly, and commanded him in Wrath to withdraw.

The Chevalier _de Solare_, and two Captains of the Guards, are set over him, with whom he sometimes plays at Billiards.

The liquor, writes Patin, in 1653, in one of those letters, half French, half Latin, which he was in the habit of inditing,--the liquor called _rossolis_ “nihil habet solare, sed igneum quid potentissimum, lumborum renum, que doloribus adversissimum.” At this period, all _liqueurs_ were considered unpardonable luxuries, if not sinful.