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Curious Quintet on a Card Game and Paris Dispatches
The extract describes a detailed private account of the game of quadrille with players, tactics, and mixed fortunes, noting bets and social dynamics. It then shifts to late 17th century Paris news, including the Dowager of Lorraine’s town choice for garrison, military commands, church matters, university appointments, and several dispatches from the Rhine and Italy, with movements of troops and ships and local deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prince de Tingry
Rhine
Marquis de Polastron
Flanders
Marquis de Capéllar
M. Gilbert
College of the Four Nations
M. Piat
Duke de Noailles
d’Asfield
Italy
Count de Clermont
Rome
Campagne
Constablie
Marshal de Villars
France
Marquis d’Asfeld
Turin
Marseilles
Levant
Malta
Spain
Constantinople
Kingdom of
Sicily
Madame de Shheladet
Dame de St. Leger
M. Bontems
Genoa
N.S
Africa
Bafiia
Republick
Speke
Cardinal Marini
Cardinal Grimaldi
Novi
Milan
Count de Daun