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BNL.746.030
4 Dec 1746:11 (2329)
Extract of a letter from the Hague, Sept. the 30th.
Some persons who lately came from Paris give the following
account of affairs there, viz. . . of the death of his
Catholick Majesty, and of that of the Dauphness, and
consequently for the frequent singing of Te Deum, for the
playing off of fireworks, erecting magnificent canopies,
singing masses of requiem, and procuring funeral orations,
which have amused idle people, and taken off their attention
from ther real necessities, they must, upon viewing their
miserable circumstances, have been thrown into a deep
dejection, and will many of them be soon in what of even
bread; and what stills adds to their unhappiness is, that
they are not at liberty to complain of, or even mention the
cause of their distress, for fear of being clapt into prison
or sent to the galleys. . . [1/5th col.]
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