Index Entry | Concert, in Versailles, Queen cancelled because of news of de Grasse defeat |
Location | Versailles |
Citation | CJ-B.782.057 24 Oct 1782:31 (349) Extract of a letter from Paris, dated May 31. The Court has at last received the original dispatches of the Count de Grasse, respecting the unhappy affair of the 12th of April. . . [column describing reaction of French nobility and people to replace ships lost in action] The Queen shares this misfortune with her Royal consort. On that melancholy occasion she countermanded a concert that was to be given in her apartment. |
Generic Title | Continental Journal |
Date | 1782.10.24 |
Publisher | Gill, John |
City, State | Boston, MA |
Year | 1782 |
Bibliography | B0015878 |