Note 96 — IV THE ELECTORAL HOUSE OF HANOVER (HANOVER AND HERRENHAUSEN, 1688-1701)
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In 1701, however, the Duchess Anna Maria protested against the Act of Settlement, which limited the Succession to Sophia and her issue, being Protestants. For an account of the reasons of Victor Amadeus’ original estrangement from France, and a searching analysis of his character, see a remarkable Relation de la Cour de Savoie, July 15th, 1692, in Appendix to G. de Léris, La Princesse de Virrue [for a time the Duke’s mistress et la Cour de Victor Amad. de Savoie, Paris, 1881, pp. 238-9.]