Note 24 — SECOND PART FROM THE DEATH OF HIM I HAD BELIEVED MY FATHER UNTIL THE PRESENT TIME (continued 2)
M. Harriet M. (Magdalen Harriet Mary) Capes translation
“It is reported,” says the Gazette de Leyde (article on Paris, July 23, 1773), “that M. le Duc de Chartres, under the name of the Comte de Joinville, is about to make a three weeks’ visit to Holland.”
The Journal historique et politique des événements des différentes cours de l’Europe (Article, France, Aug. 6, 1773), thus announces the carrying out of this plan: “Monsigneur the Duc de Chartres, having taken leave of the King and Royal Family, travelled to Metz, and from there to Thionville, from which place it is believed that Prince will go to Luxembourg and to the Austrian Netherlands, where he will travel under the name of the Comte de Joinville.” We should like to know what the learned Laurentie could now plead in contradiction!