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| | Leopoldina lives on |
 | | Leopoldina’s engagement to a prince of Saxony was promptly broken off and the Portuguese prince instated in his place. |
 | | Added to Leopoldina’s varied and brilliant retinue (which included stewards, chamberlains, assorted aristocrats, guardsmen, a grand almoner, a chaplain, a doctor and four philologically expert ladies-in-waiting), there was a librarian, a zoologist, an imperial hunter, a royal gardener, an entomologist, a mineralogist, a working miner, three drawing teachers and several artists specialising in drawing plants. |
 | | Leopoldina’s marriage brought her not only happiness, but trade and culture to Brazil, raising the intellectual and cultural tone of the court, and giving it a much needed touch of refinement. |
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