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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39855	The follies of France, or, A true relation of the extravagant rejoycings that were made by the French King's command, in most cities of France, for the pretended death of His Majesty (William, King of Great-Britain) contained in a letter written from a Roman Catholick citizen of Paris (by way of Holland) to his correspondent in London ; translated from the French original.	Roman Catholick citizen of Paris.	1690 (1690)	Wing F1401; ESTC R6856	4,691	6

THE Follies of France OR A True RELATION of the Extravagant Rejoycings that were made by the French King's Command in most Cities of France for the pretended Death of His Majesty WILLIAM KING of Great-Britain contained in a Letter written from a Roman Catholick Citizen of Paris by way of Holland to his Correspondent in London Translated from the French Original THE present Letter having very fortunately fallen into my hands I judged it worthy to be committed to the Press that all the World might be informed of those excessive Transports and other unaccountable Fopperies that were transacted in France by order of the Court upon the imaginary Death of King WILLIAM and particularly because the Author seems to be so abundantly assured of the truth of all these proceedings being an Eye-witness of them at Paris Paris August the 8th 1690. SIR I Have been very regular and constant in Writing to you nevertheless I was obliged to take some time to put my self in a capacity of satisfying your last demands that I might send you nothing but the Truth and withal a particular account of every memorable Circumstance You 'l be no loser by this delay of mine since instead of a bare Letter you receive a kind of an Epistle However it is Sir you 'l find an exact relation of what I have either been an Eye-witness or informed my self from unquestionable hands upon this occasion The defeat of the Irish Army and the return of King James was matter of extraordinary mortification not only to our Court but to all France in general However this Consternation Heaven be praised was not of long continuance and our sorrow was immediately converted into joy by reason of the mighty News which the King commanded to be published from the Twenty seventh to the Twenty eighth Night of the last Month by the Cannon of the Bastile which was discharged about Three a C●ock in the Morning and by the Commissioners who at the same time knocked at the Doors of every Citizen without any difference crying aloud with all their force Arise get up and make Bonefires the Prince of Orange and Mareschal Schomberg are dead This solemn declaration made by His Majesty's Order obliged the whole Town to get up and pass the remainder of the night and the following day in Bonefires and all other publick testimonies of joy One could hear nothing but Trumpets Drums Hautboys Fifes Flutes and Sackbuts one could see nothing but Tables furnished in every Street where Wine was not spared in the least The Religious Fraternities distinguished themselves and particularly the good Fathers the Cordeliers who spent all night long a prodigious quantity of Petards and other Fireworks in their Garden and distributed their Wine about in abundance The same was likewise done at the Guild-hall of the City by the express Command of the Provost of the Merchants All the people without exception and especially those of higher quality as they passed in their Coaches through the City were stopped on their way and forced to drink a Health to King James and the Prince of Wales and to cry out aloud The Prince of Orange is dead They burnt the Effigies of the Prince and his Royal Spouse the Princess in several places as they had done before at their Bonefires for the Battel of Flerus and the Naval Engagement They dragged them through the City where they made a solemn Procession and there was neither Man nor Woman great nor small among the People who did not throw Dirt and Stones at them Nay their Indignation was carried higher they hanged the Prince of Orange in Effigies in abundance of Places amongst the rest they led him up and down by way of Procession with a Devil who was to carry him to Hell having before him a piece of Paper thus inscribed I have waited for thee these two years During these mighty Rejoycings they broke open the Houses of several of the New Converts and particularly a Grocer's in the Fawxburghs of St. Germain they affixed to their Gates a Portraiture of the Prince of Orange crying He 's dead They demanded money of others to exempt them from pillaging and forced 'em to give it after having committed a thousand Outrages upon their Persons In fine Sir I am able to acquaint you That not the most advantagious Successes we ever met with nay not the Birth of an Infant of France however it was universally desired ever found so agreeable an entertainment which gave occasion for one of our celebrated Poets to say Though Paris such Triumphs and Joy has exprest For the Prince that in Ireland was slain The news of his death does not half ful my breast As the fear of his rising again You will see Sir a great deal of pleasant Poetry on this Subject in a certain remarkable Paper which I have sent you composed after the manner of an Interment which they have made of the Prince's Body in Ireland it being a very curious Piece engraved here in the City by one of the most eminent Masters in that Art and is every where publickly Sold. With this good News of the Prince of Orange's Death we have received some either welcome Passages as well from Savoy as Germany If they happen to prove true we shall scarce find Wood enough to furnish out our Bonefires and we assuredly hope before the end of the Campaign to have no more Enemies to exercise our Valour upon let their numbers be never so great These Revellings and Masquerades continued till the 29th of the last Month in this City at Versailles and St Germain's en laye where three or four thousand Persons being assembled together they made their Supplications to King James who arrived there on the 25th to inform them whether the News of the death of his Son in Law was certain And some of the King's Officers assuring them that nothing was more sure they made the same rejoycing at St. Germains as they did in this City which Examples were copied by those of Lyons where the Shops was shut up for the space of three days successively as well as in several other places for the greater solemnization of this Festival It was not only at Lyons and other principal Cities that the People testified so much joy for the Death of the Prince of Orange our irreconciliable Enemy Sedan particularly distinguished it self among the rest as one of my Friends a Gentleman of very good Credit acquainted me who happen'd to be upon the Spot when this Affair was transacting and it was not many days ago On Sunday the 30th of July They caused such Bonefires to be made there as they had never seen before upon any occasion The meanest Person was rated at a good round Sum to defray the Expence without reckoning the Burgesses who endeavoured all they could to outvy one another in the Magnificence of the Show They were not forgetful to cause several Representations of the Prince to be made His Highness was exposed