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BG.750.013
31 Jul 1750:11 (1785)
Turin, April 25. The 12st arrived here an express from
Madrid, with advice, that the ceremony of the marriage of
his Serene Highness the Duke of Savoy with the Infanta Dona
Maria Antoinetta, had been performed there on the 12th of
this month by proxy. Upon receiving this advice, as the
court was then in mourning for the late Landgrave of Hesse
Thinfeldt, the King ordered it to be laid aside for three
days. The next day the Princes of the blood, the foreign
ministers, and the principal nobility, went to court to
compliment his Majesty on this occasion; after which Te Deum
was sung in the Metropolitan Church, under a triple
discharge of the cannon upon the ramparts, and of vollies
from the troops here in garrison. At night the whole city
was illuminated, which illuminations and rejoicings
continued for three nights successively.
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