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Despatches from Paris Jan.-Dec. 1788

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

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Despatches from Paris Before the Revolution
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1910

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References

page 19 note 1 Videk.

page 34 note 1 It was the custom of the Porte, on a declaration of war, to imprison the ambassador of the Power against whom it was declared in the Castle of the Seven Towers which forms such a conspicuous object on Seraglio Point.

page 85 note 1 Louis Joseph, eldest son of Louis XVI, died 1789.

page 130 note 1 Charles III, King of Spain, died 13 December 1788.

page 132 note 1 In addition to his proposal to double the Tiers État, he proposed, in 1789, to make capital punishment uniform and to adopt decapitation, hitherto reserved for nobles. His name was given to the Guillotine.