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PC.768.004
4-11 Jan 1768:2042 (1/52)
Vienna, September 9. Yesterday, at six in the evening, the
Duke de St. Elizabeth, the Neapolitan Ambassador
Extraordinary, went in state to the castle of Schonbrun,
where he was received by the great officers of the court,
the food-guards being under arms, and the noble German and
Hungarian guards forming a lane through the apartments. He
was first admitted to an audience of the Emperor, and then
to that of the Empress Queen, of whom he made a solemn
demand of the Archdutchess Maria Josepha, in marriage for
the King his master. . . [11 lines] There was a ball at
night opened by the Emperor and the future Queen, and
afterwards a supper of several tables.
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