The Stuffy Announcer of Versailles, 1692, The Worried Announcer of Versailles (title on object), The Stuffy Announcer of Versailles. Cartoon of the French King Louis XIV as a town crier. The king is sickened by the news of the defeat in the naval battle of Cape la Hogue in which the French under Admiral de Tourville were defeated by the combined fleet of England and Holland under Admirals Russel and Almonde, May 29 to June 3, 1692. A laughing Englishman and Dutchman want to cure him with a pot to break into and an enema syringe. In the foreground a dog with the long list of the names of the

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