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Title: Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ...
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Fontenoy, marquise de, pseud
Subjects: Courts and courtiers
Publisher: Philadelphia, Hubbard Pub. Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ar amongst the V^iennese, who seem to thinkthat, if there must be a power behind the throne, it is betterit should be a beautiful woman than a Jesuit. Maria Theresawa;s not eighteen at the time of the marriage, and seemedmore like her husbands grand-child than his wife. Still themarriage has proved a very happy one; and the Archduchesshas had a decidedly humanizing effect on her husband. Ifany one could have reconciled him to living in the nineteenthcentury rather than the fifteenth, it would have been she. Inthis she has failed ; but still her influence over him is verygreat. A superb rider, she is to be seen almost every day inthe Prater galloping towards the Frendenau where she takes aparticular delight in exercising and breaking in her huntersherself. The last time I had the pleasure of seeing her It was at afancy ball given by Archduke Ralner. She was dressed torepresent the North Pole, in a long fourreau of pearl-huedsatin over which were gathered transparent folds of soft silky
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The Empress of Austria. 568 WITHIN ROYAL PALACES. gauze; diamonds and rock crystals covered almost every partof the skirt and corsage which were edged with swandsdown,powdered with diamond dust. A long square court mantle ofcloth of silver hungr from her left shoulder where it wasfastened by a dazzling diamond Polar star. Scattered all overthis mantle were snowballs made of swansdown, icicles of rockcrystal and a film of hoarfrost composed of brilliants of thepurest water. The Archduchesss magnificent hair was pow-dered and a scarf of thinnest silver gauze fastened above theforehead by a huge crescent of diamonds and sapphires,drooped around the white neck and lost itself under a longchaplet of icicles which fell from the slender waist to the sil-ver-shod feet of the fair wearer. I purposely describe at lengththis original and gorgeous costume because it is typical of thetaste displayed by iMaria Theresa in every detail of her lifeand which is apparent in all her surroundings from the

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