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BPB.765.010
29 Apr 1765:23 (402)
Extract of a letter from Paris, dated Feb. 15. Last Friday
se'night the principal nobility at Hanover made a great
cavalcade on sledges. A band of musicians accompanied them,
and the horses, as well as the sledges, were superbly
decorated, the Princes Charles and Ernest of Mecklenbourg-
Strelitz were of the party.
The same kind of diversion was taken at Vienna the Friday
before. There were thirty-two sledges, which set out from
the place at noon, and traversed the principal streets and
squares of that capital, into which a great quantity of snow
had been brought the night before, there not being before a
sufficient quantity for the course. The train was opened by
the Prince d'Aversperg, Master of the Horse, preceded by a
sledge drawn by six horses, wherein were a kittle-drummer
and eight trumpets. In the first sledge which followed the
Master of the Horse, was the emperor conducting the Queen of
the Romans; in the second, the King of the Roman with the
Archduchess Maria-Christina; and the rest of the Archdukes
and Archdutchesses, &c. in succession. The cavalcade, which
lasted two hours, was closed by a great number of domesticks
on horseback, dressed in their habits of gala. The Empress,
Duke Charles and the Princess Charlotta of Lorrain, saw it
from the windows of the palace. In the evening there was a
ball in the grand salon of the court, which was finely
illuminated.
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