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NEWJ.736.012
8 Jun 1736:12,13 (479)
Vienna, Feb. 15. The ceremony of the marriage of his Royal
Highness the Duke of Lorrain with her most Serene Highness
the Archdutchess Maria Theresa was perform'd the 12th
instant with the usual solemnities. . . [26 lines] The
Pope's nuncio, who went to the church before, received their
Majesties and the illustrious pair in the chapel of
Lorretto, which was most sumptuously adorned and
illuminated, where their Majesties placing themselves in
easy chairs of cloth of gold, near the altar, and the Duke
and the Archdutchess on the chairs near them of cloth of
silver, the litanies were sung, and then the nuncio read his
Holiness's dispensation; after which the Duke of Lorrain
approaching the altar with the Archdutchess on his left
hand, the Nuncio asked him in Latin, if he wou'd take the
Princess to wife, to which his Royal Highness answered, Yes;
the nuncio then address'd himself to the Archdutchess with
the like demand; upon which her Most Serene Highness made a
profound reverence to their Imperial Majesties, went up to
them and kiss'd their hands, as if to ask their consent,
which they immediately giving, the marriage ceremonies were
performed with the usual formalities, Te Deum was sung under
a triple discharge of the cannon and the musketry, and the
court returned back to the Palace in the same order. . . [13
lines]
The next day,. . . At noon their Majesties dined in publick
in the Empress's apartment, with the illustrious couple and
the two archdutchesses, and at night there was a new Italian
opera.
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