In April of 1770, held the wedding of the Archduchess in Vienna.
In chronological order, I want to tell you about the events in Vienna:
In the first days of April and precisely on 2 were the German and Hungarian, noble guards to kiss the occasion of the forthcoming marriage, admitted in Erzerzogin Marie Antoinette, on the same day it said the rector of the University of Latin and she replied in the same language and on 3 took the number of officers of the garrison and the civil service. On 14
April the Empress announced solemnly to their ministers the marriage of her daughter to the Dauphin of France. On 16
was the court of Vienna in the dress and we received the French ambassador to your imperial and royal majesties to a formal audience, in what has stopped the Ambassador to the Archduchess Antoinette as a future wife of Monseigneur Dauphin. After this
Ceremony was mansion great reception. When the ambassador himself went there, he was received with royal honors. The palace guard was on the grand staircase trellis, and the bodyguard walk was in the first antechamber, and the German and Hungarian nobility Guard formed in the remaining ante-rooms a double row, and the court was just as numerous as shiny.
The Ambassador was first received by His Majesty the Emperor and the Empress-Queen then called, at which he stopped in the name of the king of France to the Archduchess. After your Imperial and Royal Majesty had given their consent, the ambassador was summoned to the Audizensaal, and received by the Empress and the signs of consent from the hands of the ambassador a letter from the Dauphin and his portrait that was so then stapled by the Countess Trauttmansdorff the Archduchess to her breast. About 9 clock, the Court went into the magnificent spectacle and illuminated room. They led the comedy "La Mère confident" on what one was followed by Mr Noverre composed ballet "Le Berger de Temp.
The next day, the 11th occurred as usual on such occasions, Marie Antoinette in the secret council chamber before the emperor, the empress, the French ambassador, the minister and the state bar councils and their waiver on the paternal and maternal inheritance rights. Prince Kaunitz read the waiver formula, Marie Antoinette, she did and signed the oath on the Gospels, the Count Herberstein held.
gave The next day the emperor in the Belvedere Palace a magnificent feast for its preparation by more than 2 months were required. A supper for 1,500 people, masked ball, fireworks lacked nothing to the splendor of this celebration. On 19
It was the turn of the French ambassador. The light Liechtenstein Palace, where the ambassadors lived was brilliantly illuminated, access, driveway, interior was all decorated with exquisite taste and in the back of the garden, a fireworks prächtvolles burned. On 19
by 6 clock in the evening was the wedding "by proxy" celebrated in the Augustinian Church. From that date was the Archduchess, Dauphine of France.
The next day the court dined in public and in the evening there was a great reception.
The departure of the Dauphine moved ever closer and her family and the people in Vienna, a sadness came over to lose such a young and popular princess forever.
On 21 April, at half 10 clock in the morning, took leave of her mother, Marie Antoinette, and left Vienna that they never to see again and left for France. The Emperor accompanied her to Melk, he could not bring himself to be guided by his youngest sister to separate, which he often rebuked, but loved even more. When he arrived back the following day in Vienna, he found the city sunk into mourning and Maria Theresia in tears.
To commemorate this wedding was celebrated in April this year a grand festival at the original location, the Belvedere Palace. With the participation of 300 honor-profile guests was a handsome amount for the preservation of the castle are collected. A celebration
the Marie Antoinette would certainly appreciate, and even the Francesca Habsburg attended that stood with her great wardrobe in the service of the cause.
