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.
He really is, and I am sad not much of his stuff is available in English. Here are two neat articles, though, which at least give you an overview about what there is:
Thank you! That's very useful. It looks like several of the books in the articles are in easily-available Penguin editions (bless you, Penguin!) -- so -- hmm! :)
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Re: The Lehndorff Report: 1784
Date: 2020-03-17 01:16 am (UTC)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
Re: The Lehndorff Report: 1784
Date: 2020-03-17 06:05 pm (UTC)He really is, and I am sad not much of his stuff is available in English. Here are two neat articles, though, which at least give you an overview about what there is:
Neglected Books: Theodor Fontane
and
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Re: The Lehndorff Report: 1784
Date: 2020-03-19 04:00 am (UTC)