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Comet Sighted in Galilee and French Court News
A fragmentary English letter from November reports a small comet visible for weeks, then shifts to a detailed Paris dispatch recounting the death of the Duke of Orleans, rapid court appointments, and nobility shifts. It notes finance, bullion, and sugar trade items as well as ships taken in Atlantic waters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Lifton
Galilee
Tabor
Nazareth
St. Francia
Santa Grotta
Santa Acria
Paris
Duke of
Orleans
Princess de
St.Hood
St. Denis
Sons of France
Cardinal Dubois
Duke
President de Morion
A’ Mortier
Marshal de ‘Villars
Marseilles
Fribourg
RaRade
Count de Toulouse
Antin
Duke De‘toailies
Marshal de Villeroy
Reval Council
Treasury of
M. Fagon
M. Berthelot de Plenecof
Marquess de Beringhen
St. Germans
Fenillans
Oriday
Duke of Orleans
India Company
Leons Lepin
Old Baly
Holland
Bristol Channel
Katherine
Joanna Cornelius Jans Kuyper
Mafler
Lisbon
Amsterdam
Patareroes
Add
Med
Portugueze
Aiscons