Linkages between the north Italian state of Savoia with its capital of Torino and France have been documented already in these albums. Marie Adélaïde is important as mother of King Louis (aprés nous le deluge) XV. The House of Savoia is important as playing a key role in the Risorgimento when Italy was unified in the 1800s under the leadership of the Savoia kings. Her Wikipedia article is here.
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1556 Catherine de Medici possibly by Agnolo Bronzino
1710 Marquesa Angeka Maria Lombardi by ? (The Walters Art Museum - Baltimore, Maryland USA)
1709 Marie-Adélaïde de Savoie, duchesse de Bourgogne by Jean-Baptiste Santerre (Versailles)
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