LOUIS XV. Ode on "LA CONVALESCENCE DU ROY." written by de ROY, Chevalier de l'Ordre de Saint-Michel. Permit to print August 29, 1744. De l'Imprimerie de P.G. Le Mercier, Imprimeur-Libraire ordinaire de la ville, rue St Jacques, au Livre d'Or, 1744. 4 pages in-4°. "...Le Sénat a donné le signal d'allégresse, / L'organe de nos Lois, l'est de notre tendresse, / FRANCE, adore la main qui rend en ce grand jour, / Un héros à ta gloire, un père à ton amour." (Magnificent festivities are held throughout France for the recovery of King Louis XV).

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