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Glorious Fontainebleau Court Pageantry and Huntsman Appointments
An English summary notes a royal procession at Fontainebleau with the King in a chariot, staged stag hunting, and the Queen dressed as an Amazon with princesses. The Duke de Ponthievre, aged six, is named to the office of Great Huntsman. Polignac buys statuary for Rome and ships. naval news from Dartmouth and London ships. mass marble works and a water feature planned at Fontainebleau. various local incidents and trials follow in Britain and Ireland including a murder verdict and hunts in Windsor Park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Casle
Fontainebleau
Versailles
Duke de Ponthievre
France
Count de Toulouse
St. Herem
Cardinal de Polignac
Rome
St. Nicolas
Hotel de Sully
Jesuits
Colege
Regulus
Count de Chabannes
Glocester
Frog-Mill
Bunfond
Tryal
Duke of
Dorfet
Ireland
Ockham
Surry
Eaton
Dogget
Roper Slan
John Davis
John Alifs
William Lakeland
Joseph Gutteridge
Peter Cooper
Battersea
Lady Ashburnham
St. James's Square
Ashburnham
Sussex
Cawdery
Upper Moor Fields
St. Paul’s Wharf
Hackney Church
Ward
Hackney
William Marlow
William Bristow
Windsor Great Park