Hello there, and welcome! Also, I clearly must read those memoirs, because that’s one divine diss, almost Voltairian.
Btw, I continue to be fascinated by the fact that in the late 18th century, you could just wander into someone else’s palace and private rooms, sightseeing, without bothering to ask the owner for permission. (Goethe did it, too, after all.) It’s one thing to read about Elizabeth Bennet dropping by at Pemberley sightseeing a generation later, that’s fiction, and another to get this real life examples of how this was handled.
Re: Stanislaw August Poniatowski
Hello there, and welcome! Also, I clearly must read those memoirs, because that’s one divine diss, almost Voltairian.
Btw, I continue to be fascinated by the fact that in the late 18th century, you could just wander into someone else’s palace and private rooms, sightseeing, without bothering to ask the owner for permission. (Goethe did it, too, after all.) It’s one thing to read about Elizabeth Bennet dropping by at Pemberley sightseeing a generation later, that’s fiction, and another to get this real life examples of how this was handled.