I giggled! (I also giggled when you first excerpted that.)
The count appeared to him as a gift from heaven, the evening of his life had come, but lo and behold, the sun before it departed lent him a ray of her happy light again.
I know you've quoted this before, but: awwwwww <333333
one can imagine her taking a look at that handsome young Frenchman in distress and thinking "I know!"
Ha! That is a very cute story. Go Demoiselle Aurore!
WHen one of Napoleon III.'s faves showed up to take the estate which Heinrich had left to the Comte and her into his posseession by some legalese twisting, she just laughed at him and send him on his merry way, and despite having technically the law on his side, he caved.
This is a great story too. She is awesome! And I loved Fontane's last epitaph on her. <3 (Fontane is so cool!)
whereupon Heinrich talked them both down and gave them a "duel = dumb", and "no matter which of you dies, both your reputations would be ruined by such a deed" speech.
Re: The Lehndorff Report: 1784
I giggled! (I also giggled when you first excerpted that.)
The count appeared to him as a gift from heaven, the evening of his life had come, but lo and behold, the sun before it departed lent him a ray of her happy light again.
I know you've quoted this before, but: awwwwww <333333
one can imagine her taking a look at that handsome young Frenchman in distress and thinking "I know!"
Ha! That is a very cute story. Go Demoiselle Aurore!
WHen one of Napoleon III.'s faves showed up to take the estate which Heinrich had left to the Comte and her into his posseession by some legalese twisting, she just laughed at him and send him on his merry way, and despite having technically the law on his side, he caved.
This is a great story too. She is awesome! And I loved Fontane's last epitaph on her. <3 (Fontane is so cool!)
whereupon Heinrich talked them both down and gave them a "duel = dumb", and "no matter which of you dies, both your reputations would be ruined by such a deed" speech.
See, this is why Heinrich is my favorite <3
Thank you for all this, this was great <3