Over the past decades of Victor Amadeus's rule, the House of Savoy has prospered.
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The subject of the play is the strange incident in 1730–32 in the Kingdom of Sardinia in which the elderly king, Victor Amadeus II, first abdicated in favour of his son Charles Emmanuel III, and then after months of ever-increasing complaints unexpectedly demanded to be restored.
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He will take the name Count Tende and spend his retirement in Chambéry, 150 km away in the extreme northwest of Savoy.
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Polyxena suggests that the King's mistress, Marchioness Sebastian, may have influenced Victor in that direction after he was widowed in 1728.
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