King Louis XVI and Queen Marie-Antoinette, escorted by soldiers, arrive at a masked ball  held to celebrate the birth of their son, the Dauphin. Etching by Jean-Michel Moreau the younger, 1782, after P.L. Moreau-Desproux.

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King Louis XVI and Queen Marie-Antoinette, escorted by soldiers, arrive at a masked ball held to celebrate the birth of their son, the Dauphin. Etching by Jean-Michel Moreau the younger, 1782, after P.L. Moreau-Desproux.