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Updated: May 26, 2025
Joséphine Louise, Princess of Savoy, married to the Count de Provence. Joseph, Emperor of Austria, visits France incognito; writes to his sister on European politics; death of. Jussieu, Bernard de. Justice, remarkable, always shown by the queen. Kaunitz, Prince. Keppel, Admiral. King Gustavus III. of Sweden visits the French court. Korff, Madame de. La Belle Liégeoise. Lacoste, M. Lacy, Marshal.
In reply to Baron Korff, who had advocated the admission of the Jewish artisans beyond the Pale not only with their families but also with Jewish domestics, Valuyev argued that this privilege "will enable Jewish business men of all kinds to reside in the interior governments, under the guise of employes of their coreligionists."
This precious night, the shortest of the year, it flies, and drives! Baroness de Korff is, at bottom, Dame de Tourzel, Governess of the Royal Children: she who came hooded with the two hooded little ones: little Dauphin; little Madame Royale, known long afterwards as Duchesse d'Angoulême. Baroness de Korff's Waiting-maid is the Queen in gypsy-hat.
*Speranski, for instance, when Governor of the province of Penza, brought to justice, among others, a proprietor who had caused one of his serfs to be flogged to death, and a lady who had murdered a serf boy by pricking him with a pen-knife because he had neglected to take proper care of a tame rabbit committed to his charge! Korff, "Zhizn Speranskago," II., p. 127, note.
Baron Korff, who perhaps took liberties because she was so young, went on to say: "My dear lady, have you really never seen Lassalle? Why, you and he were meant for each other!" She felt ashamed to ask about him, but shortly after a gentleman who knew her said: "It is evident that you have a surprising degree of intellectual kinship with Ferdinand Lassalle."
He said, in the name of his party, that, whether the travellers were the Baroness de Korff and suite, or of a higher rank still, it would be better that they should alight, and remain at his house till morning. With what a bursting heart must the queen have seen the king quietly doing as he was bid!
Seldom, it seemed, was there a better instance of love at first sight, or of the true affinity of which Baron Korff had spoken. In the midst of the public gathering they almost rushed into each other's arms; they talked the free talk of acknowledged lovers; and when she left, he called her love-names as he offered her his arm. "Somehow it did not appear at all remarkable," she afterward declared.
The sea-winds rush over the bared hills; the Frische Haff is half-choked with sand; the channel between Elbing, the sea, and Konigsberg is endangered, and the fisheries in the Haff injured. The operation of Herr von Korff brought the king 200,000 thalers. Dr.
The coach that was waiting beyond the gates had been ordered for a Russian lady, Madame de Korff, who was Fersen's fervent accomplice. She supplied not only the carriage, but £12,000 in money, and a passport. As she required another for her own family, the Russian minister applied to Bailly.
In 1844, for example, he heard of some gross abuses in a tribunal not far from the Winter Palace, and ordered an investigation. Baron Korff, to whom the investigation was entrusted, brought to light what he called "a yawning abyss of all possible horrors, which have been accumulating for years," and his Majesty, after reading the report, wrote upon it with his own hand: "Unheard-of disgrace!
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