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Royal visits and deaths mark Lisbon to Paris correspondence
From Lisbon to Madrid and Paris a detailed 18th century dispatch notes royal tours in Portugal and France. It records the Queen’s visits with the Bra zilian royal family and the Infanta, hunting in Alcantara, church ceremonies, a royal wedding, academy appointments, and a viceroy’s letter. Also noted are flooding near Benifica, deaths of Don Pedro de Saldanha de Albuquerque and Father Michel de Amaral, drought in Spain, a Cadiz fort, and Parisian court life with hunting and processions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lisbon
N. S
Donna Francisca
Sc. Peter of Alcamiara
St. Hyacinth Marescoti
Don Antonio de Sylveira de Albuquerque Bexia- Tibau
St. Martin
Order of Christ
Donna Agnes de Lancastre
Bon Lewis Innocent de Castro
Boris
Rezenda
Royal Guards
Don Antonio de Miranda Henriques
Donna Magdalena de Bourbon
Donna Anne de Vasconcellos
Count de Vincioso
Marquis de Valenia
Royal Academy of History
Don Manuel de Azevedo
Don Juan de Saldanha de Gama
East Indies
Persian Gulf
Lareca
Ormus
Academy
Don Pedro de Saldanha de Albuquerque
Dominicans
Benifica
Don Juan de Castro
Donna Juana de Azeveda
Santarem
Madrid
N.S
Duke the Giovenazzo
Prince de Cellamare
Paris
St. Lewis
Pare Aux- Cerfs
Duke of Lorrain
Duke de St. Aignan
Rome
Cagach
Cardinal de Fleury