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May 7, 1718

France. April 26 OS in the Old Style calendar (not Gregorian but Julian). Maria Beatrice d’Este (of the Duchy of Modena and former Queen of England), dressed in the simple habit of the Visitation, the one she dreamed of wearing as a child, is transported to Chaillot, where she finds repose next to her husband James Stuart (former King of England).