impertinentes

Updated: June 3, 2025

"The Princess Caroline much embarrassed on my first being presented to her," Malmesbury enters in his diary "pretty face, not expressive of softness her figure not graceful, fine eyes, good hands, tolerable teeth, fair hair and light eyebrows, good bust, short, with what the French call 'des épaules impertinentes, vastly happy with her future expectations."

Thornton Hall - Love affairs of the Courts of Europe