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France to James II in pursuit of his policies to advance the toleration of Catholicism in Great Britain.
He adds that "when (the commotions) were quelled, the (BigEndian) exiles always fled for refuge to
that empire (Blefuscu/France)". This partially reflects the exile of King Charles II on the Continent (in
France, Germany, the Spanish Netherlands, and the Dutch Republic) from 1651 to 1660, but more
particularly the exile of the Catholic King James II from 16881701. James II was dead by the time
Swift wrote Gulliver's Travels, but his heir James Francis Edward Stuart, also Catholic, maintained his
pretensions to the British throne from a court in France (primarily at SaintGermainenLaye) until 1717,
and both Jameses were regarded as a serious threat to the stability of the British monarchy until the
end of the reign of George II. The court of the Pretender attracted those Jacobites, and their Tory
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