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The Last Queen
Maria Luisa became Duchess of Lucca in 1817, when the city and the countryside were suffering from political uncertainty, a terrible famine, and a heavy epidemic of typhus. The period of the Restoration began: a process aimed at re-establishing the power of the absolute rulers in Europe. All the innovations made by the French government were supposed to be erased.