Louis Xvii

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Birth of the Dauphin. Louise of Lorraine, Archduchess of Austria, dueen of the Two Sicilies, represented by Madame Elizabeth. He received the title of Duke of Normandy, which no son of France had borne since the fourth son of Charles VII. The King, followed by all the court, went to the chapel of the...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Birth of the Dauphin. Louise of Lorraine, Archduchess of Austria, dueen of the Two Sicilies, represented by Madame Elizabeth. He received the title of Duke of Normandy, which no son of France had borne since the fourth son of Charles VII. The King, followed by all the court, went to the chapel of the chateau, where Te Deum was sung. After the ceremony, M. de Calonne, minister of finance and grand treasurer, brought to the new-born prince the insignia of the order of the Holy Ghost Towards nine o'clock, beautiful fireworks were displayed on the Place d'Armes, in the presence of the King and all the court. Louis XVI. then directed the grand master of the ceremonies to go and inform his good town of Paris that God had accorded him a second son. Lettres de cachet were transmitted, according to custom, to all the leading personages in the church, in the army, and in the parliament. Joy spread itself from one end of the great city to the other, and soon from one end of the great kingdom to the other. The cannon of the Bastille responded to the cannon of the Invalides. Everywhere spontaneous illuminations, the ringing of bells, the acclamations of the people, manifested the love of France for a king who, in the flower of his youth, found his happiness in the happiness of the people. Never, in fact, had monarch ascended the throne with intentions more pure and upright than those of Louis XVI. He had not merely the taste, his was a passion, for goodness. It was with him an inexpressible satisfaction to feel himself beloved by his people, a cruel suffering to see that love diminishing. Hence the so deserved popularity that he enjoyed at the commencement of his reign. He had proceeded at once to the measures which he himself deemed the best calculated to obtain that affection, ..