¬The¬ valleys of Tyrol : their traditions and customs and how to visit them
wlicn Leopold and Maria Luisa made thcir entrance wiili un ex ante od poinp. TI10 mar ri ago was celebra ted in thè Pjarrkirche by Brince Clement of Saxony, Bishop of Ratislxm, assis ted by seven other bisliops. Balls, operas, hainpiets, iiluminations, and thè national Fmwhi-efinen, fnìlowcd. Bili during all thesc fètes, an unseasonnhlc gìoom, wbieh is popularly snpposed te bode evi], overcloudod thè August sky, usuaily so clear and brilliant in Innsbruck. On thè 18lh,a grand opera was given
io condurle thè fedivi!.ics ; on bis way back freni, it Francis Mer was seized with a fit, and. died in thè course of thè night in thè arm« of bis son, afterwards .Joseph II* Tliough Maria Theresa’s master mind had cansed her to take thè lead in all public matters, alio was devotedly attached to ber Imsbaiitl, and ibis sudden lilów was severe!}* foli hy ber, *She eould not bear that t-be rooin in which he expired shoukl ever ho again used for sccular purposes, and bari it converted into a cosi ly chapcl