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out before she was able to take complete possession of the dukedoms, and give satisfaction to the ardent wish Isabel de Farnesio to see her sons ruling over them. Carlos was the first to take possession, in virtue of the Treaty of Vienne of 1731. The Infanta D. Felipe, who married in 1759 the first-born daughter of Louis XV, after having fought with great courage in Italy, helped by his brother Carlos, in defense of his mother's rights against the Empire, had the good fortune to see those rights to the dukedoms ratified by the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748, when after the death of Philip V, Ferdinand VI ruled over Spain. In the same year, the Infants took

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