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BNL.727.015
12-19 Oct 1727:21 (42)
From the London & British Journals, Paris, Aug. 20. On the
13th in the evening, the Queen was taken with a vomiting:
but on the 14th at four in the morning her Majesty began to
feel some pangs of her labour, which grew more violent about
seven o'clock, so that they went and waked the King, & about
half an hour past eleven her Majesty was delivered of two
Princesses in a short time one after the other. In the
afternoon Te Deum was sung to musick in the Chapel of the
Castle, at which the King and the whole court assisted. In
the evening the entrance of all the avenues of Versailles
were illuminated by the Duke of Gevres Orders, and at
midnight a great number of chamber-guns and rockets were let
off, on account of the Queen's safe delivery, who is as well
as can be expected.
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