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Updated: May 11, 2025
Countess Perponcher, her lady in waiting, took me up through the Long Corridor, past the entrance to the Queen's rooms on one side, and Gordon's Bible, in its glass case, on the other, till we turned to the left, and I was in a small sitting-room, where a lady, gray-haired and in black, came forward to meet me.... We talked for about 50 minutes: of German books and Universities Harnack Renan, for whom she had the greatest admiration Strauss, of whom she told me various interesting things German colonies, that she thought were "all nonsense" Dreyfus, who in her eyes is certainly innocent reaction in France the difference between the Greek Church in Russia and the Greek Church in Greece, the hopes of Greece, and the freeing of Crete.
Without delay the provisional government despatched two envoys, Fagel and De Perponcher, to London, to inform the Prince of Orange of what had occurred and to invite him to Holland. William had been in England since April and had met with a favourable reception. He now therefore without hesitation accepted the invitation, and landed at Scheveningen, November 30.
In the list we find also members of noble houses in whom descent supplied the place of talent. Foreign names were at a premium: Brassier, Perponcher, Savigny, Oriola. It was presumed that they had greater fluency in French, and they were more out of the common.
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