Fonseca, ELEONORA PIMENTEL DE, MARCHIONESS, was born in Naples in 1758, and was lady-in-waiting to Queen Caroline until she forfeited her mistress' favour by remarking on her intimacy with Acton (q.v.). In 1798 she was an active partisan of the French; but on the fall of the Parthenopean republic in 1799 she was sent to the gallows at the instigation of the queen.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 715
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