Quakes Ripple Through Europe Amid War News
From London to Madrid and Brussels reports arrive of a February earthquake in Piedmont plus strategic wartime movements. Dispatches note Grimaldi return and Corsican resistance, rumors of a treaty false, French troops mass near Normandy, Dunkirk harbour project paused, and a tremor felt in Paris with Versailles and royal court reactions.
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Genoa
Grimaldi
Paoli
Madrid
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Versailles
Europe
America
Malaga
Marseilles
St. Malo
Barce-lona
Toulon
Brusséls
Conde
Landrecies
Avennes
Conti
Normandy
Brittany
Picardie
Lionnois
Royal Suedois
la Tour du Pin
Beauvoisis
Dunkirk
Boulogne
Brusfils
Britanny
Brussels
France
Friends of
England
Brest
Louisburg
Ireland
Scotland
Paris
de Rouille
de Sechelles
Lamain
St. Lewis
United Colleges of Boncours
Navarre
Se. Barbe
Navarre College
la Roquette
Fauxbourgh St. Antoine
Grand Council
Plight of Taxes and Vice Tabled by PHILOPATRIUS Letter
Private letters from Paris discuss tax schemes targeting luxury and vice to fund the navy and trade. Proposals include higher levies on opera tickets, pantomimes, cards, dice, and swearers, aiming to shift costs from industry to frivolity while urging virtue and sobriety.
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Corvis
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