At eight at night, on the ninth day of May, 1774, Versailles presented the most curious and interesting of sights.
Since the first day of the month, Louis XV., stricken with a sickness of which the physicians dared not at the outset reveal the gravity, had kept his bed, and began look around him for truth or hope.
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