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she sent the countess w�ϻ���������ô���߶�ݸʽ������ϵ��ʽ,�ϻ����������ȫ����绰oronsoff to her father��s estates in the country, dismissed poniatowski from st. petersburg, and tried to reconcile the ill-matched couple; but in vain. she died soon afterwards, and peter iii., a german at heart, proceeded on his accession to make himself hated in russia by his infatuation for everything prussian; prussia being the nation of all others disliked by his subjects. he discarded the french and austrian alliance, attached himself to frederic, king of prussia, and besides all the unpopular changes he made in his own army, accepted the rank of an officer in that of prussia, wore the prussian uniform, and declared that he preferred the title of a prussian major-general to any other he possessed!louis xv., at this time about forty-five, extremely handsome, immersed in a life of pleasure, magnificence, and vice, was then under the domination of the duchesse de chateauroux, ma?tresse en titre, the youngest of the five daughters of the marquis de nesle, four of whom had been for a longer or shorter period the mistresses of louis xv. that such a father as the king should have had such a son as the dauphin is astonishing indeed. the author of some fascinating memoirs of the day writes of him, ��if i have not yet spoken of m. le dauphin, do not suppose that it is from negligence or distraction, it is because the thought of his death always envelopes my mind like a funeral pall. his premature end is ever present with me, and is a subject of regret and affliction which i cannot approach without terrible emotion. he was so grievously mourned for, he has been so universally and justly praised, that there would not be much left me to tell you if i were not to speak of his perfect beauty, which was the least of his perfections, and which perhaps for that very reason, the writers of his time never mention.... his face and figure were perfectly formed; and he had, especially in the movement of his lips and the gentle, melancholy pride of his great black eyes, an expression which i have never seen unless perhaps in some old picture of the spanish school ... he might have been an archangel of murillo.... he carried with him the happiness of france and the peace of the world, but one felt that it would have [166] been perfect happiness, and that one would never experience it
donnez-nous les chemises;pauline, who firmly believed in the ultimate success of the royalist army, and whose heart and soul were with the gallant soldiers of cond�� and the heroic peasants of la vend��e, waited at aix-la-chapelle, studying english and german and corresponding with her mother and sisters under cover of an old servant.��you are quite wrong to go. i shall stay, for i believe in the happiness the revolution will bring us.��here she finished the portrait of the young princess von lichtenstein, as iris. as she was represented with bare feet, her husband told mme. le brun that when it was hung in his gallery, and the heads of the family came to see it, they were all extremely scandalised, so he had placed a pair of little shoes on the ground under it, and told the grand-parents they had dropped off.�ϻ����������ȫ����绰�ϻ���������ô���߶�ݸʽ������ϵ��ʽbut his insinuations made no impression upon the empress. she liked mme. le brun and paid no attention to
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