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SCGCJ.767.065
18 Aug 1767:11 (89)
Paris, May 1. The Spiritual Concert at the Thuilleries was
interrupted last Sunday by a tragical event. An Englishman
who was in company with some ladies in one of the boxes,
where there was a French officer, talked and sung, and made
so much noise, that the officer represented to him that it
was impossible to hear the concert, and receiving an
insulting answer, made a sign to him to walk out. As the
officer was going out of the box, the Englishman gave him a
box on the ear, in sight of the company; upon which the
officer ran him through the body and made his escape. The
Englishman was immediately put under proper care; but it is
assured his wound is not dangerous. He is said to be a rich
merchant of London. The regard paid here to foreigners,
may, perhaps, occasion this affair to be suppressed.
. . . Paris, May 3. The Englishman, who thro' ignorance of
our manners and customs gave a box on the ear to an officer
at the spiritual concert, and who, in consequence thereof
was put into the Bastile, is now recovered. He will be
conducted without loss of time to the frontiers of France on
the side towards England; and the King being desirous that
this affair should have no bad consequences, has given
orders to his antagonist, who is a reduced officer of the
regiment of Fitz-James, not to go out of the Kingdom under
any pretence whatsoever.
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