From Madame Gilflurt:
Although
he initially seemed to rally, fate had other plans in mind for the
monarch and Louis suffered an agonising death, his body blackened and
rotting with the infection. After being placed in his coffin and covered
with alcohol and linens, the king's remains were interred in the Basilica of Saint Denis, his near six decade reign coming to a painful and unhappy end. (Read more.)
Louis XV repented on his deathbed for the public scandal he had given, confessing to the blind and holy priest
Abbé Maudoux, who later became Marie-Antoinette's confessor. (From L
éon de la Bri
ère's
Madame Louise de France, p.66)
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