It is totally false that the Queen was delivered of a black child.  The late Monsieur, who was present, said that the young Princess was ugly, but not black.  The people cannot be persuaded that the child is not still alive, and say that it is in a convent at Moret, near Fontainebleau.  It is, however, quite certain that the ugly child is dead, for all the Court saw it die.

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