On this day, a Thursday, Madame Palatine writes to her aunt with concerning news about her nephew:
“We have our Duc de Berri here dangerously ill. In the night from Sunday to Monday morning before 4 o’clock, he had an attack of fever with chills. He hid it, got up, got dressed, and wanted to go find the King’s doctor, but, chills coming upon him again, h…