Coraline is now dead, as well as a son whom she had by the count, and whom his father named Count de Monreal.
Madame la Dauphine was delivered of a princess, who received the title of Madame de France.
In the month of August the Royal Academy had an exhibition at the Louvre, and as there was not a single battle piece I conceived the idea of summoning my brother to Paris.

He was then in Venice, and he had great talent in that particular style.

Passorelli, the only painter of battles known in France, was dead, and I thought that Francois might succeed and make a fortune.

I therefore wrote to M.Grimani and to my brother; I persuaded them both, but Francois did not come to Paris till the beginning of the following year.
Louis XV., who was passionately fond of hunting, was in the habit of spending six weeks every year at the Chateau of Fontainebleau.

He always returned to Versailles towards the middle of November.