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NYWJ.746.003
29 Dec 1746:12 (680)
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. That trade is entirely
ruined; that want and misery manifest themselves every
where; and that had it not been for the news often arriving
of victories being gained, of cities and strong places being
taken, of the death of his Catholick Majesty, and of that of
the Dauphiness, 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 .
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