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BEP(F.756.030
1 Nov 1756:11 (1105)
Paris, July 26. . . Yesterday, Sunday, the day appointed to
be observed as a solemn thanksgiving for the taking of Fort
St. Philip, notice thereof was given to the people at break
of day by different discharges of the cannon of the Bastille
and the townhouse. At six in the evening Te Deum was sung
to music, under discharges of the cannon of the metropolitan
church of the city, at which the Parliament and the other
sovereign courts assisted, as also the chancellor and the
keeper of the seals, who came from Compeigne on purpose. At
nine o'clock the magnificent fireworks were play'd off in
the Place de Greve. The machine or building represented
Fort St. Philip with the bastions of Marlborough, &c.
Fountains ran with wine in upwards of 20 places of the city,
and victuals were distributed in great profusion to the
populace. Orchestras had also been built, in which bands of
music play'd whilst the mob danced. (And we wept.)
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