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Despite her mother's efforts to induce a miscarriage by means of riding, Anna Maria Luisa de ' Medici, the only daughter and second child of Cosimo III de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and his consort, Marguerite Louise d ' Orléans, was born in Florence on 11 August 1667.
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