Sunday, 25 August 2013

August

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2.
Marie Antoinette is transferred to the Conciergerie (1793)

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Louis XV falls dangerously ill at the frontier of Metz (1744)

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8.
Louis XVI summons the Estates-Generale for the first time since Louis XIII (1788)

9.
Louis XIV goes hunting for the last time (1715)

Fête in honour of the English ambassador (1786)

10.
Louis XIV shows the exiled Queen of England the menagerie at Versailles - it was the last visit by the Sun King (1707)

Louis XIV visits Marly for the last time (1715)

Louis XVI is deposed as King of France (1792)

11.
Louis XIV walks in the gardens of the Trianon for the last time (1715)

Louis XIV holds a council of state and goes for a walk - he would never go outside again (1715)

12.
Minor concert in Madame de Maintenon's apartment (1715)

13.
Louis XIV bids farewell to the Persian ambassador (1715)

Louis XVI is arrested (1792)

14.
Louis XIV hears Mass in the chapel for the last time (1715)

Birth of the twins Louise Élisabeth and Anne Henriette - daughters of Louis XV and Marie Leszczynska (1727)

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Fête in celebration of the marriage of Princesse Clothilde (1775)

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18.
The Duchesse de Bourgogne attends the fair in Paris (1698)

19.
Madame du Barry is born (1743)

20.
Bread riot in Paris (1709)

21.
Louis XIV is examined by four doctors (1715)

Proxy wedding of Princesse Clothilde (1775)

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Louis XVI is born (1754)

24.
Louis XIV eats dinner in the presence of his courtiers for the last time (1715)

Louis XVI abolishes torture as means to get suspected prisoners to confess (1780)

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26.
Louis XIV and Marie Thérèse makes their first official entry into Paris (1660)

Marie Zéphyrine - daughter of Louis, Grand Dauphin and Marie Joséphe de Saxe - is born (1750)

Wedding by proxy between Madame Louise and the Duke of Parma (1739)

27.
Louis XIV presents his will to the chief-president of the Parlament (1714)

Princesse Clothilde marries the heir to the throne of Sardinia (1775)

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Princesse Louise Élisabeth - daughter of Louis XV - leaves Versailles for Madrid (1739)

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