Citation - Pennsylvania Chronicle: 1767.05.04

PC.767.083
27 Apr-4 May 1767:583 (1/15)
A letter from Paris, dated Feb. 14, says,  For a long time
past the Ambassadors at this court, has formed pretensions
of going to the ball at the opera house with swords by their
sides, after the example of Princes of the Blood.  The
ministers for the department of foreign affairs, have just
determined this point in their favour; in consequence of
which, two Ambassadors went lately to the ball to take
possession of this prerogative.