France Prepares New Levies Amidst German War Fears
The article notes Strasbourg grants gratuities to ease city revivals while new magistracies are created. It reports a French plan to invade Germany this winter, with armies in Rhine regions and in Picardy and Flanders preparing to strike. Strasbourg is ordered to raise two regiments and broader areas urged to levy men, with large numbers conscripted from Alsace and Luxembourg as the war intensifies.