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IL.781.061
8 Oct 1781:41 (4/176)
The violence and rapidity of the late fire at Opera-House at
Paris, baffled every endeavour to extinguish or stop its
progress; it is impossible to describe the consternation of
the populace, when it approached the palace of Mons. le Duc
d'Orleans, which adjoined the Opera, and to which, in spite
of every effort, the flames at last communicated, beginning
at the apartments of Mons. le Duc de Charters, which were
intirely consumed with every part of the superb furniture of
that quarter of the palace. Happily, however, the flames
were extinguished before the whole of the magnificent pile
was destroyed.
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