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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: STOEY OF THE DAUPHIN; COMMONLY CALLED LOUIS XVII. =. I. THE PALACE OF VEBSAILLES. the textit{'27th of March, 1785, there were the gayest manifestations of rejoicing at the Chateau cle Versailles. King Louis XVI., followed by all his court, went to textit{ i lie palace chapel to hear textit{Te Deum sung in celebration of the birth of a young- prince, his second son, who came into the world 'at five minutes before seven in the evening.' At half-past eight, the infant was baptised, according to the forms of the Catholic faith, by no less a personage than the Cardinal de Rohan, bishop of Strasbourg, and Grand Almoner of France, assisted in the minor operations by the Abbe Brocquevielle, vicar of Versailles. The ceremony No. 92. 1 accomplished, brilliant fireworks were displayed, towards nine o'clock, on the Place d'Armes, in the presence of his majesty and the court. Loudly from all steeples round about the bells were ringing cheerily; and onwards, on the way to Paris, the 'grand master of ceremonies' wns posting fast, to announce to the good people of that city the inspiriting intelligence of the advent of a new prince. Arrived thither, and his message delivered, the cannon of the Bastille respond to the cannon of the Invalides. Spontaneous illuminations everywhere burst forth; the air is loud with the noise of bells; and the hearty acclamations of the people seem to be the testimony of a reverent and unfeigned respect for the reigning monarch and his family. The great Revolution is approaching, but as yet its elements are at wort invisibly, like the secret forces of a volcano that is preparing to explode. No one dreads or dreams of the terrible event. There is yet some remaining loyalty in the land; and this has gathered round the person of the' really amiable ...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781458817211
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 118
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1458817210
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 227 gr


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