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VGW(PA.739.040
18-25 May 1739:22 (147)
Hague, Feb 16. N.S. Letters from Paris intimate, that mere
diversion was not the sole intent or the grand ball which
the King gave at Versailles, but that it had been made use
of to screen from the prying observation of the court spies,
a conference which the King and the Cardinal had that
evening, in His Majesty closet, with a certain minister who
is not nam'd; and that early the next morning an express was
sent to Italy with important dispatches, which, it is
conjectured, relate to an alliance, the contents whereof, it
is said by those who pretend to be in the secret, we shall
soon be inform'd of. Whatever might be the real intent of
this superbe ball, every body is of opinion, that it serv'd
to cover some political mystery.
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