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Updated: May 27, 2025
'Nay, it is the Princess, said a voice at the door, and a woman swept into the chamber. 'Von Rosen, you had best stay with us. Now, sir, what is it that you have to say to either Prince or Princess of Saxe-Felstein? At the first sound of the voice I had sprung to my feet. At the first glance I had thrilled with anger.
I opened the Marquis's tunic, the brilliance of which had been devised by the Emperor in order to attract those young aristocrats from whom he hoped to raise these new regiments of his Guard. It was a small packet of papers which I drew out, tied up with silk, and addressed to the Prince of Saxe-Felstein.
She closed the door, and then looked at me with the archest twinkle in her eyes. 'Is it not confiding of me to trust myself with you? said she. 'You will remember that it is the Princess of Saxe-Felstein and not the poor Countess Palotta of Poland.
In a year's time there will be no place for a Frenchman upon this side of the Rhine. And thus it was that I played the Princess of Saxe-Felstein with all Germany for a stake, and lost my game to her. I had much to think of as I walked my poor, tired Violette along the highway which leads westward from Hof.
Although I had lost my papers, I could make a very good guess as to what their contents would be, and this I would say from my own lips to the Prince of Saxe-Felstein, as though the Emperor had commissioned me to convey it in that way. It was a bold stroke and a dangerous one, but if I went too far I could afterwards be disavowed.
'I bear his message to His Highness the Prince of Saxe-Felstein. The man beneath the daïs raised his head, and I saw that his face was thin and wan, and that his back was bowed as though some huge burden was balanced between his shoulders. 'Your name, sir? he asked. 'Colonel Etienne Gerard, of the Third Hussars.
'But I have papers here in my tunic which you must carry at once to the Prince of Saxe-Felstein, at his Castle of Hof. He is still true to us, but the Princess is our deadly enemy. She is striving to make him declare against us. If he does so, it will determine all those who are wavering, for the King of Prussia is his uncle and the King of Bavaria his cousin.
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