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MG-A(G.752.007
30 Jan 1752:13,21 (353)
Paris, Sept. 24. . . [29 Lines on the joy of the King, who
has just had a son, giving various gifts to 600 young women
and their bridegrooms] The Life Guards, in the flush of
their joy, asked and obtained his Majesty's leave to give a
ball in their guard chamber in Versailles; it was honour'd
with the presence of the royal family, and conducted with
great politeness.
This royal birth filled the town of Versailles with a kind
of enthusiasm; for a whole week nothing was to be heard
thereabouts but drums, trumpets, violins, and hautboys,
mixed with the shouts of the several trading and working
companies, incessantly paying their compliments to the King
and the royal family.
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