Versailles Century

Versailles Century

On This Day

5 May 1766

From the Letters of Louis XV to the Infante Ferdinand of Parma

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On this day, Louis XV writes to the Duke of Parma:

“My very dear grandson, you can be entirely reassured on the Queen’s account. She is so well that I will say no more about it. Madame la Dauphine is better, but she still coughs, and she is very thin. The Abbé de Beauvais is a young man of merit; he has already preached before me, which I will not forget…

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