FINEST WEDDING GIFT EVER MADE.
Probably the most magnificent wedding present ever made was that of Cardinal Mazarin to Maria Theresa. It consisted of an entire dinner service of pure gold, two gorgeous state carriages, twelve of the finest horses procurable in Russia and Italy, and jewels that cost the donor a little more than six million dollars. The Cardinal ga\ > each of his seven nieces a fortune on her marriage, and Saint Simon records the fact that in his will he left to one of his nephews-in-law nearly six million dollars. The tapestries, books, paintings and -furniture he left behind him are to-day the choicest treasures of many museums, and are fought for by the richest men in the world on the rare occasions when they came into the
market,
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 25 September 1912, Page 3
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