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MG-A(G.757.010
28 Apr 1757:22 (625)
February 1. It is reported that the French ministry have
forbid all communication with England by way of letter,
through Holland, or any other country, by which some
conjecture, that their King is not in so good a way of
recovery as had been given out.
Likewise, that he had warning some weeks since to take
care of himself, by a paper laid under his plate on a table
in a room where he was to dine; and it may be remembered,
that in the year 1751, the following lines were fixed up at
the Louvre, one of his palaces:
By our brave ancestors two Henries fell,
A victim one to freedom, one to God.
Lewis! by servile flattery taught to swell,
Thou tread'st their steps, and shak'st the tyrant's rod.
Dread our despair! to heal the wound,
A guise, Ravillac, Clement may be found.
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