1824, ISBN: 9780217921145

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[ED: Softcover], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: her fourteen days afterwards, at Chalons. It is curious to remark, that each party thought an honour was conferred on the other by the marriage. Madame de Sevigne pretends that the Princess was dazzled at the high rank to which she was elevated the Duke Saint Simon, on the contrary, says that she always pretended to have conferred an obligation on her husband. It is clear enough, from her correspondence, that she was not led astray by the dazzling brilliancy of the Court of Louis XIV., and that she knew perfectly well that her greatest charm in the eyes of her husband was the money which she brought with her from the Palatinate. She admits that, from her first interview with her husband, she perceived that he did not like her. Saint Simon assures us, that she received his advances with an air of superiority and grandeur whilst he, on his part, was not slow in convincing her of the effeminacy of his character, and the narrowness of his understanding. Between two persons thus united, from motives of policy or mutual convenience, there could be nothing like sympathy. At the early age of nineteen, the princess found herself alone in the midst of a splendid court, where one beauty eclipsed another, and where personal charms were in a constant struggle with those of intellect, for the purpose of attracting the admiration of the monarch. Miserable indeed must have been the situation of a young German Princess, without beauty speaking with extreme difficulty the language in which the whole Court expressed itself with elegant fluency left without any support, not having even that of her husband and exposed to the most unhappy of all fortunes in a court?that of being laughed at! Add to this, that she was obliged to reside in a mansion where the murderers of her predecessor li...Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen, [SC: 0.00]<

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