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…


