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Lightning Sets Fire to Prince Pamphili Farm in Rome
Rome reports on a fire at Bocca di Lepre farm where Lightning struck multiple buildings. Only cattle saved as flames consumed all structures, with losses over thirty thousand crowns. Parallel dispatches note Venice seeking an accord with Barbary regencies for commerce, while French parliamentary and church tensions unfold across Rouen and Evreux.
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Pamphili
Bocca di Lepre
Modena
Venice
Republick
Barbary
Porte
Senate
Algiers
Bowen
Fane
Verneuil
Marshalfeamen
Evreux
Argentius
Rouen
Pavis
Fulyz
Versailles
Pontoire
M. de Auteuil
M. Dupleix
Pondicherry
East Indies
the India Company
Port Orient
Brest
Rochfort
Fuly
M. de Voltaire
Frankfort
Prussia