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Famously, Cavalli had been called to Paris in 1660 to write an opera for the wedding of Louis XIV and the Spanish infanta, María Teresa.
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Claire Fontijn, The Conversation, 18 May 2026
Of the smaller states, Lucca passed to the Spanish infanta Maria Luisa (widow of Louis, king of Etruria, whose son Charles represented the Bourbons of Parma, temporarily excluded by the grant of Parma to the Austrian Marie Louise) and suffered some degree of clerical reaction.
—Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 12 Mar. 2026
Thusly spurned by the Spanish infanta, Charles subsequently chose 14-year-old Henrietta Maria, daughter of Henry IV of France and his taste-making Florentine wife Marie de’ Medici (and sister to Louis XIII), as his queen.
—Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 17 Feb. 2018
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Claire Fontijn, The Conversation, 18 May 2026
Of the smaller states, Lucca passed to the Spanish infanta Maria Luisa (widow of Louis, king of Etruria, whose son Charles represented the Bourbons of Parma, temporarily excluded by the grant of Parma to the Austrian Marie Louise) and suffered some degree of clerical reaction.
—Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 12 Mar. 2026
Thusly spurned by the Spanish infanta, Charles subsequently chose 14-year-old Henrietta Maria, daughter of Henry IV of France and his taste-making Florentine wife Marie de’ Medici (and sister to Louis XIII), as his queen.
—Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 17 Feb. 2018
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“Infanta.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/infanta. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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