25 July 1739
From the Memoirs of the Duc de Luynes
On this day, a Sunday, the Duc de Luynes arrives at Compiègne in the early afternoon from Chantilly, where he went on Thursday. He finds the courtiers gossiping about what happened at mass that morning. The King, the Queen, and the Dauphin attended mass at the church of St. Jacques, a grand mass in honour of the parish’s patron saint. Unlike at Versaill…
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